Item HT 43065 Handkerchief - Green and Yellow Geometric Design, Silk, circa 1933-1943

Summary

This silk handkerchief may have been made in Japan for European/American export or appeared at the Japanese Pavilion in the 1933 Chicago World Fair, where other handkerchiefs from this collection were acquired.

It belonged to Emily Hannah Francis, of Garden City, and was part of a collection of 145 souvenir and commemorative handkerchiefs put together by Emily, sent to her by pen friends from around the world, up to her death in 1943.

Physical Description

Heavy white silk handkerchief with hand-rolled edge and a printed geometric gridded pattern in light and dark greens, lemon yellow, light orange and burgundy.