Collection Highlights
Chatelaine
Date:
ca. 1761
Object Number:
1954.179a-d
Medium:
Silver gilt, gold, enamel, ivory, chalcedony, glass, paint
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Fan
Object Number:
2002.1.1396
Date:
1900-1940
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
11 x 6 x 1/8 in.
Description:
This woman's hand fan is made of paper and is shaped like a hand mirror. One side has a print of a little boy in a cap eating a lollypop and reads on the handle "Nature's Remedy/ The All-Vegetable Laxative and Corrective. Get a 25ct. Box/ NR To-Night Tomorrow Alright/ Tums for the Tummy/ Quick Relief for acid indigestion, heartburn. Only 10 cts. a roll." The reverse has drawings of the two products and suggestions for use.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
