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Collection Highlights

Common Sense
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.Y1776.Paine.com
Medium:
Pamphlet, paper

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Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

Object Number: 
1941.925
Artist/Maker:
Henry R. Rittenberg
Depicted:
Herbert Hoover
Date: 
ca. 1941
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 
Overall: 30 x 25 in. ( 76.2 x 63.5 cm )
Gallery Label: 
This portrait was painted to add to the Society's set of presidential portraits and commissioned by George A. Zabriskie.
Credit Line: 
Gift of George A. Zabriskie
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creative: Tronvig Group