Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Guitar pick
Object Number:
2002.1.4598
Date:
1920-1940
Medium:
plastic or Bakelite
Dimensions:
1 1/4 x 1 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description:
A black triangular guitar pick, probably of early plastic or Bakelite, printed in white on one side "Manny's/ Heavy", and on the reverse "Rock N Roll/ Nigger".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
