Handkerchief
- Object Name:
- Handkerchief
- Object ID:
- 2015.003
- Creator:
- Fogel, Barnet (1863-1961)
- Place of Origin:
- Brooklyn, NY
- Date:
- 1908
- Description:
- Souvenir handkerchief. Color printed on beige silk. "U S S NEW HAMPSHIRE" on a banner beneath a battleship printed in blue ink in center panel; framed by a U.S. flag in each of four corners, with a border of the flags of fifty nations around outside edge. Attributed to Barnet Fogel, Brooklyn, NY.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- H-14.5 W-16 inches
- Provenance:
- The U.S.S. New Hampshire was the last of six pre-dreadnought battleships authorized for construction by the U.S. government over three budget years from 1902-1904. The second U.S. naval ship New Hampshire, it was constructed beginning on May 1, 1905, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, NJ. Launched on June 30, 1906, it was dedicated by Mrs. John A. (Hazel E. McLane) Clark, daughter of Governor John McLane, and formally commissioned at a public ceremony in Portsmouth on March 19, 1908. The ship served the fleet until it and others were discarded following the Washington Naval Treaty in 1921, and sold for scrap in 1923.
- People:
- Fogel, Barnet (1863-1961)
- Subjects:
- Battleships, Souvenirs, Naval ships, Flags, Handkerchiefs, American flag
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