Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Argand lamp
Object Number:
INV.11865
Date:
1825-1850
Medium:
Bronze, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 8 in. ( 38.7 x 41.3 x 20.3 cm )
Marks:
molded: in low relief on scales on burners: "B. GARDINER/N. YORK"
Description:
Lamp with two burners and central, urn-shaped reservoir; stand has square base supporting four-legged square pedestal; cylindrical stem supports reservoir and arms bearing burners; ring with two eagles around reservoir to support glass prisms (missing).
Gallery Label:
The donor of this lamp recalls seeing it around 1890 in the living room of his mother's mother, Mrs. Frances Augusta (Beals) Baker (1815-1897) in her apartment on the southwest corner of 56th Street and Park Avenue. The lamp may have been owned originally by her mother and father, William Beals (1785-1870) and his wife, Dorothy Whitney Beals (1797-1876) of Boston, MA.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dudley Davis, 1950
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
