Collection Highlights
Memorial sample card
Date:
Object Number:
1947.490a
Medium:
Watercolor and hair on ivory
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Luce Center
Bowl
Object Number:
2002.1.3470
Date:
1970
Medium:
Glass, gold
Dimensions:
3 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. diameter
Description:
A smokey gray transparent glass commemorative bowl, with a gold inside band just below the rim the reads "Wool Associates- 100th Anniversary Of The New York Cotton Exchange- Citrus Associates/ 1870-1970". The founding of the New York Cotton Exchange in 1870 marked the end of the factorage system for marketing America's most important 19th-century domestic crop and the beginning of today's futures trading system for buying and selling all commodities.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
