Collection Highlights
Portrait of Six Young Women Seated in a Turkish Corner
Date:
Object Number:
PR.120.1.3.SIX
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Trade calendar
Object Number:
1955.247
Date:
1905
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/4 x 3 3/8 x 3/8 in. ( 12.1 x 8.6 x 1 cm )
Marks:
printed: on obverse: "James McDuffee & Stratton, Co./Pottery Merchants. Boston. U.S.A."
printed: on reverse beneath upper locomotive: "GEORGE STEPHENSON'S LOCOMOTIVE THE ROCKET/1829 ABOUT 8 TONS, ABOUT 18 FEET LONG/SIX HORSE POWER, SPEED 24 MILES."
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Description:
Rectangular earthenware trade calendar with black transfer-printed calendar for the year 1905 on one side; on reverse, two transfer-printed images of locomotives, with inscriptions; pierced circular hanging hole at top.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Dora Whitman Fluekiger in memory of Florence Elsworth Wilson (Mrs. R. Thorton Wilson)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
