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Date:
ca. 1863
Object Number:
PR.055.3.105
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Traveling bag (fragment)
Object Number:
1947.457
Date:
1830-1835
Medium:
Silk, cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/4 x 10 in. ( 14.6 x 25.4 cm )
Marks:
printed: on label: "RICHARD HARRISON/Saddler & Harness/and Trunk Maker/90 Broadway/New York"
Description:
Inside section of a leather traveling bag; brocaded silk with blue striping sewn around rectangular section of cardboard; printed paper label of Richard Harrison, saddler, harness and trunk maker, glued to surface.
Gallery Label:
The leather bag which this fragment came from was owned by William Gardiner Jones, the great-grandfather of the donor. The maker of the leather bag, saddler Richard Harrison, is listed in the New York City directories between 1830 and 1835.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Chaudor Dickinson in memory of her mother Mrs. Adeline Dickinson Chaudor
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
