Collection Highlights
Fuller (Flat Iron) Building, New York
Date:
1903
Object Number:
PR.020.61.1
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Doll's wig in box
Object Number:
Z.1326.1-2
Date:
1850-1925
Medium:
Hair, cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Box: 4 1/2 x 4 x 3 1/4 in. ( 11.4 x 10.2 x 8.3 cm )
Overall: 6 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (15.2 x 11.4 x 5.7 cm)
Marks:
printed: on box: "GEORGE M. TRACY, Agent./AT THE EXTENSIVE/SHIRT AND COLLAR DEPOT,/87 and 89 William Street, New York, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN/GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS,/CONSISTING IN PART OF/Shirts, Collars, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, Hosier
Description:
Doll's wig (made of human hair) with mass of long brown curls sewn to brown cloth cap banded by cream-colored trim sewn on with brown thread; in round cardboard box covered in paper printed with text beginning "GEORGE M. TRACY, Agent." and with remains of lid.
Gallery Label:
The wig was found with the box described in this record.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
