Collection Highlights
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
Date:
1932
Object Number:
LIB.NS11.M14.1.20
Medium:
black and color ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ashtray
Object Number:
2002.1.358
Date:
1910-1950
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
1 3/8 x 5 in. diameter
Description:
This beige ceramic ashtray is marked in brown "Guinness Is Good For You" around the sides and in the center is a drawing of a fat man in early 19th century clothes dictating to a clerk, with the caption "A famous drawing by "Phiz" of Sam Weller composing/ his Valentine, showing a contemporary notice of Guinness".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
