Collection Highlights
Slant-front desk
Date:
1777-1794
Object Number:
1947.461
Medium:
Mahogany
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Medallion
Object Number:
2002.1.4727
Date:
1907
Medium:
Metal, celluloid
Dimensions:
Pin: 2 1/2 in. long; medallion: 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. diameter
Description:
A medallion stick pin with a gold colored rim around a celluloid disk printed with dark blue border that reads "New York State Embalmers' Assn." around a central white field printed "8th Annual Session/ September 17-18-19, 1907" and on the reverse in black, a drawing of factories next to train tracks and a river barge with greenhouses encircled by "Central City/ City Of Syracuse 1846".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
