Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
Date:
ca. 1866
Object Number:
1921.20
Medium:
Steel
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Clock part
Object Number:
2002.1.512b
Date:
1871
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
5 x 2 1/4 x 1 in.
Description:
This green painted metal part is embossed with designs and has holes in either end for screw mounting. It appears to be trim for a metal clock as it is embossed on the back "The Parker & Whipple/ Co./ Patented/ Feb. 28, 1871". Parker & Whipple were clockmakers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
