Collection Highlights
Manhattan Rifles!
Date:
1861-1865
Object Number:
PR.055.3.226
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Button/ clothing
Object Number:
2002.1.3371
Date:
1910-1920
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/4 x 5/8 in. diameter
Description:
Three small black metal military clothes buttons, the tops embossed with a spread winged eagle behind a shield with laurel branches and arrows in its talons and a "E Pluribus Unum" banner in its beak, on a globe and over a banner embossed "Excelsior". The reverse are engraved "City Button Works/ N. Y. " Probably vintage World War I.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
