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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Luce Center
Paperweight
Object Number:
2002.1.64
Date:
ca. 1890-1900
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
: 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.
Description:
Clear glass paperweight with a white glass insert in the bottom that has a drawing of shoes and reads: The Heckel Pat. Turn Shank/ Gives comfort to the foot and retains stylish shape of shoe/ The Name/ "John Heckel"/ Stamped on every shank/ Beware of Imitations./ MFRD by John Heckel/ Rochester/ NY/ Patd May 23, 1893/ Shoes with Heckel's Pat. Shank/ Shoe without a Steel Shank.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
