Box
Classification:
Date:
1875-1900
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 7/8 x 1 3/4 in. ( 2.2 x 4.4 cm )
Description:
Circular wooden box with slip-on lid.
Object Number:
Z.1541.20ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
31261
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Box
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Palm nut
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 in. ( 3.8 cm )
Description:
Circular box with screw on lid made of palm nut (vegetable ivory), the pieces screw together at the middle where it is undulated.
Object Number:
Z.1541.18ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
31256
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Box
Classification:
Date:
1875-1925
Medium:
Vegetable Ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. ( 3.8 x 2.9 cm )
Description:
Wooden egg-shaped thimble case with painted pinwheel designs in red, green, blue and yellow.
Object Number:
Z.1541.15ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
31253
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Box w/lid: Be Firm For Adams
Classification:
Date:
1824
Medium:
Silk, paper, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 5/8 x 5 x 3 5/8 in. ( 6.7 x 12.7 x 9.2 cm )
Description:
Heavy cardboard campaign box with hinged lid, the lid has a painted velvet inscription, "BE FIRM/ FOR ADAMS" surrounded with a floral garland; gold foil paper around the sides embossed with daisies set in diamonds; when opened, inside the lid is a portrait of John Quincy Adams beneath a plate of glass, and there is a hole cut into a raised bottom, in which an object may have been set.
Credit Line:
Gift of Henry O. Havemeyer
Object Number:
1946.190
Marks:
painted: top of lid: "BE FIRM / FOR ADAMS"
printed: inside lid: "JOHN Q ADAMS"
printed: on label on bottom of box: "from HENRY O. HAVEMEYER / MOUNTAIN SIDE FARM / MAHWAH, N.J."
Gallery Label:
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), served a long career as statesman, beginning in 1794 when he was appointed minister to the Netherlands. He later served as minister three other countries, and as secretary of state under Monroe. In fact, it was Adams who encouraged Monroe to articulate the Monroe Doctrine. This box is a souvenir of his presidential campaign, 1824. He served as president from 1825-1829, and in the House from 1831-1848.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1824
eMuseum Object ID:
31240
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Box
Classification:
Date:
late 18th-mid 19th Century
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/8 x 1 1/8 x 7/8 in. ( 3.5 x 2.9 x 2.2 cm )
Description:
Gold-colored metal thimble case; hinged box in the shape of a covered pot with arabesque and floral designs on the entire surface. Likely intended to be hung as a component of a chatelaine.
Object Number:
Z.1541.11
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
31217
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Box with reticule and seashells
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1870
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
overall: 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Description:
Pink square cardboard box with a picture on the hinged lid showing a girl playing with a dog; box contains one cotton reticule and 115 small seashells and one arrowhead.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Sydney H. Carney, Jr., 1932
Object Number:
INV.11539a-nnnnn
Marks:
handwritten: on bottom of box: "1870 / Gift of Dr. Sydney H. Carney, Jr. / March 30, 1932 / NOT ACCESSIONED"
handwritten: bottom of inside box: "THESE THINGS / all From / Mr. Washington"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
31200
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Hair comb: hinged w/crescent moon
Classification:
Date:
1880-1930
Medium:
Plastic
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/8 x 1 7/8 x 3/4 in. ( 10.5 x 4.8 x 1.9 cm )
Description:
Two-pronged plastic hairpin made to resemble tortoise shell, the top is hinged and has a crescent shape which would decorate the hair once the pin is in place.
Object Number:
INV.11712
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
31182
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Comb
Classification:
Date:
1850-1950
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 5/8 x 3 1/4 in. ( 9.2 x 8.3 cm )
Description:
Molded gold colored metal comb for holding hair in place, with long teeth mounted in a narrow, curving bar.
Object Number:
INV.1156
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
31180
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Comb
Classification:
Date:
1785-1810
Medium:
Tortoise shell
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/8 x 5 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. ( 15.6 x 14.6 x 4.1 cm )
Description:
Tortoise shell decorative hair comb with fourteen teeth and openwork design at the top, the design has an oval in the center with several small flowers encircled by floral garland, both sides have floral pattern, the edges are scalloped.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Annie L. Gebhard
Object Number:
1924.49
Gallery Label:
This hair comb belonged to Elizabeth Wentworth, mother of Judge Daniel Meserve Durrell, a lawyer in New Orleans and a federal judge in Louisiana. His attorney son migrated to New York to pursue a literary career.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1810
eMuseum Object ID:
31179
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Fan with box
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Ivory, paper, metal, glass, mother of pearl, cardboard
Dimensions:
Overall (fan closed): 10 1/4 x 1 x 7/8 in. (26 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm)
Box: 1 x 11 x 1 in. ( 2.5 x 27.9 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Fan with pierced ivory guards, one with framed oval flirting mirror; pierced ivory sticks; charcoal gray embossed paper leaf with color-printed image of Jenny Lind at center of obverse; and brass(?) wire handle with mother of pearl buttons; in rectangular white cardboard box.
Credit Line:
Gift of Leonidas Westervelt
Object Number:
1945.309a-c
Marks:
handwritten in ink: on scrap of paper affixed inside bottom of box: "Sept. 11th / 1850. / Box for fan that / was carried by a lady / at first Jenny Lind Concert / Castle Garden, New York"
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this fan was used by an unnamed lady at Jenny Lind's first concert at Castle Garden, in New York City, on September 11, 1850.
Provenance:
The Jenny Lind Collection of Leonidas Westervelt
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
31174
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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