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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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Trousers
Object Number:
1933.79b
Date:
1898
Medium:
Cotton, wool, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 11 3/4 x 41 1/2 in. ( 2.5 x 29.8 x 105.4 cm )
Marks:
handwritten: inside waistband: "Spanish-American War 1898. Kurtz Eppley. "Rough Riders."
Description:
Pair of khaki-colored cotton canvas field service trousers with 1" yellow wool felt stripe down the side of each leg; 4 button fly, 6 buttons around the waistband, a pocket at the front of each hip with flaps that button closed, legs reinforced from the pockets to below the knees; 2 straps at the small of the back which fasten at the center to metal buckle with double-tongued chape, 2 rear pockets with flaps that button closed, seat reinforced.
Gallery Label:
These trousers are part of a uniform worn by Capt. Kurtz Eppley when he served in the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry (Roosevelt's Rough Riders), in the Spanish-American War. This uniform is an example of the Army's first khaki "issue," as well as the first instance when a uniform was referred to as "field service."
Credit Line:
Gift of Captain Kurtz Eppley
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
