Collection Highlights
Mayor George B. McClellan at the controls of the first subway train, October 27, 1904
Date:
1904
Object Number:
PR.020.90.1
Medium:
Silver gelatin print
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Advertising sign
Object Number:
2002.1.3410
Date:
1900-1930
Medium:
Wood, glass, paper, metal
Dimensions:
13 x 16 x 1 1/2 in.
Description:
A gold framed advertising sign completely re-framed in a deep black display frame. A carved gold painted wood frame around a scene of a man in formal riding clothes with jodhpurs, a red jacket, top hat and boots on a prancing horse riding through the countryside above the words in white "Hunter Baltimore Rye/ The American Gentleman's Whiskey".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
