Collection Highlights
American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States
Date:
1880
Object Number:
LIB.Y1808.W
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ashtray
Object Number:
2006.7.1
Date:
ca. 1939
Medium:
Glass with applied felt bottom and inset printed image
Description:
Glass ashtray with inset printed image featuring Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939 World's Fair.
Gallery Label:
The donor, who visited the 1939 World's Fair as a child, recalls that her mother, Catherine Pichelmann Hill (1907-1991), purchased this ashtray at a Woolworth's in the Bronx as a souvenir of the fair.
Credit Line:
Gift of Katherine Hill
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
