Collection Highlights
Important meeting of the African Civilization Society, at the Cooper Institute, Wednesday evening, March 7th, 1860, at eight o'clock
Date:
1860
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1860.48
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Button/ clothing
Object Number:
2002.1.3369
Date:
1910-1920
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
5/8 x 7/8 in. diameter
Description:
Seven blackened copper colored metal military clothes buttons, the tops embossed with a spread winged eagle behind a shield with laurel branches and arrows in its talons and a "E Pluribus Unum" banner in its beak, all below a sunburst. The reverses of three are blank, one is engraved "R. Leibman Mfg. Co. Newark, N.J.", and three read "J.R. Caunt & Son, LTD./ Rouse's Point, N.Y." Probably vintage World War I.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
