Collection Highlights
Untitled (Skating in Central Park, N.Y.)
Date:
ca. 1890
Object Number:
PR.020.50.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Waist belt
Object Number:
1802
Date:
1900-1920
Medium:
Leather, brass, tin
Dimensions:
Overall: 33 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. ( 84.8 x 6.4 cm )
Marks:
handwritten: belt interior: "S.V. HOFFMAN/7th Regt NY"
Description:
Leather, brass, and tin waist belt; white buff leather belt has applied tin letter on front of corner-cut rectangular brass plate at left end of belt, that fastens to clip on right; handwritten inscription on belt interior.
Gallery Label:
This waist belt was probably part of a uniform worn by Samuel Verplanck Hoffman while a member of the 7th Regiment, National Guard New York.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
