Commemorative bookmark

American Theodore Roosevelt Anderson Brothers Silk Company, Paterson, NJ, USA, founded ca. 1885

1900

Medium: Medium: silk Technique: jacquard woven
Genre: Woven textiles
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Commemorative black and white bookmark of President Theodore Roosevelt made for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, an international exposition celebrating the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. Roosevelt is shown in a portrait medallion surmounted by an eagle. Inscription at top reads: "Exposition." At bottom is another inscription: "St. Louis 1904."

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Anderson Brothers Silk Company, Paterson, NJ, USA, founded ca. 1885, 1900