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Washington - Full Madder Colors – Historic Print

Washington - Full Madder Colors, [between 1830 and 1900] — antique engraving
Washington - Full Madder Colors, [between 1830 and 1900]. Antique engraving from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Washington - Full Madder Colors, preserved in this antique engraving. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Washington - Full Madder Colors

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Here, a Washington portrait serves as a commercial label for fabric. The title, "Full Madder Colors," points to cloth dyed with madder, a red dye made from the roots of the madder plant and long valued for printed calicoes and cotton goods. The engraving was made by M. H. Traubel of Philadelphia, a city with a large textile trade in the nineteenth century. Its undated card places it somewhere between 1830 and 1900, a range inferred from similar product labels of that era. Such labels used familiar national figures to lend a sense of trust and patriotism to everyday goods.

Created / published[between 1830 and 1900]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreLabels 1830-1900.Engravings 1830-1900.
SubjectsLOT subject: Textile industry and fabrics. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Engraving by M. H. Traubel, Phila. Caption card tracings: Advertisements -- Textiles; Presidential; Shelf. No date recorded on card or item. Date based on date range of other product labels.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,008 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127653

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