Collection Highlights
Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.052.56.GrantUniform.Photos.
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Calendar
Object Number:
2002.1.1989
Date:
1939
Medium:
Wood, glass, metal, paper
Dimensions:
Frame: 5 1/8 x 6 3/4 x 1/2 in.; calendar: 2 3/4 x 2 in.
Description:
A framed picture reverse painted on glass with the silhouettes in black on beige of a man and woman in fancy dress dining at a table with two windows behind them. The windows are unpainted and one exposes a seaside scene and the other a glass alcohol thermometer. Above the seaside scene in black on gold "MElrose 5- 2912 Lic. No. L1106/ Morton's Liquor Center, Inc./ 649 Elton Ave." A small paper calendar for December 1939 hangs from the bottom of the black frame.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
