Collection Highlights
President Lincoln at Home, Reading the scriptures to his son and wife
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.052.52
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Plate: "Erie"
Object Number:
1955.210
Date:
ca.1951
Medium:
Earthenware
Dimensions:
Overall: 7/8 x 10 1/8 in. ( 2.2 x 25.7 cm )
Marks:
printed: in borwn around rim: "1851-1951"; "100th/ ANNIVERSARY/ Great Lakes to/ the Sea/ ERIE RAILROAD"
printed: in brown around rim: "ERIE" twice; "ERIE'S CENTENNIAL YEAR"
printed: in brown on reverse: "President of the Untied States, Millard Fillmore
Description:
Molded circular whiteware plate printed in brown with central scene of figures, railroad engine, and river, and brim decoration of railroad, tracks, railroad bridge, and station; inscriptions on brim and reverse.
Credit Line:
Gift of Ms. Dora Whitman Flukiger
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
