Collection Highlights
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
Date:
1932
Object Number:
LIB.NS11.M14.1.20
Medium:
black and color ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver
Object Number:
1951.323a-c
Date:
1855-1865
Medium:
Steel, wood, brass, silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 in. ( 25.4 cm )
Part (barrel): 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Marks:
stamped: barrel: "ADDRESS SAML COLT/NEW YORK CITY"
stamped: trigger gd., buttstrap, frame: "132222"
stamped: left frame: "COLTS/PATENT"
stamped: cylinder: "COLTS PATENT/NO. 132222"
Description:
Steel, wood, brass, and silver revolver; small brass silver-plated trigger guard and gripstraps; attached loading lever; roll-engraved stagecoach holdup scene on cylinder; stamped marks on barrel, buttstrap, trigger guard, frame, and cylinder; rectangular wood formed case lined with velvet; brass bullet mold with one circular and one conical cavity; small, cylindrical brass percussion cap box with labeled lid; L-shaped steel tool with rectangular, tapered arm and notched, cylindrical arm; teardrop-shaped steel powder flask with brass collar and spout, with inscription inside scroll at bottom, below stars, an eagle with a shield breast and grasping arrows in one claw and branches in the other, and two crossed revolvers; twenty-two lead pistol balls.
Credit Line:
Gift of Goodhue Livingston
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
