UCONN HISTORICAL COSTUME & TEXTILE COLLECTION




1933

Fabric sample


Cotton print, yellow ground with white dots and penguins in brown and white; small square (1 3/4 x 2 1/2" ) with pinked raw edge; mounted (original) with inscription “18; Penguins all in a row! An excellent treatment of colors - sunny yellow with brown, red with navy, and a number of others equally good” design inspired by Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition in 1933;




Provenance:
Child, Mrs. Arthur G., Greewich, CT

Construction Label:
print



1948T 1933.311