Object Details
- Author
- Curt Teich & Co
- Subject
- Washington, Martha 1731-1802
- United States National Museum
- First Ladies Hall
- First Ladies Exhibit
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Martha Washington was the wife of President George Washington.
- See Neg. 91-3682 for a description of her dress.
- The postcard is numbered #4A-H2186. Genuine Cureich-Chicago "C.T. Photo-Colorit." Curt Otto Teich (1877-1974), a German immigrant, founded Curt Teich & Co., which was a postcard printing company that operated from 1898 to 1978. The company specialized in view and advertising postcards, and was the largest volume printer of this type in the world from the 1920s to the 1940s. C.T. Photo-Colorit was a printing process used by Curt Teich & Co.
- For another version of this postcard, see Negatives SIA2013-06655 and SIA2013-06656.
- For a postcard with the image in grayscale, produced by The Albertype Company, see Negatives SIA2013-07793 and SIA2013-07794.
- Summary
- Postcard of a dress of Martha Washington, wife of President George Washington, at the U.S. National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building. It was part of the Collection of Period Costumes exhibit in the Arts and Industries Building and is now part of the First Ladies collection at the National Museum of American History. A mannequin is sitting in a chair wearing the dress, which appears pink in color, wrapped in a yellow shawl. The message side is unused. The front of the postcard has white edging.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 45, Folder: 24
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1934
- Standard number
- SIA2013-07223 (front) and SIA2013-07224 (back)
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Postcard
- Linen
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 2; Color: Color; Size: 2.5w x 5.5h; Type of Image: Postcard; Medium: Linen
- Place
- United States
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Postcard
- Clothing and dress
- Museum exhibits
- Exhibitions
- Presidents' spouses
- First Ladies Gowns
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13799
