Collection Highlights
Illustrations of cholera asphyxia in its different stages. Selected from cases treated at the Cholera Hospital, Rivington Street
Date:
1832
Object Number:
LIB.Y1832.Bart.Cholera
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Travel/ pencil
Object Number:
2002.1.3135
Date:
1940-1960
Medium:
Plastic, metal
Dimensions:
5 3/8 x 3/8 in. diameter
Description:
A beige and blue mechanical pencil with a top end shaped like a tiny motor oil can marked in red and blue "ISO-VIS Motor Oil". Around the shaft "ISO-VIS Motor Oil/ 'None Better'" with a list of distributors in Iowa.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
