Collection Highlights
Brown Brothers, Irving Place, showing east side from Eighteenth Street to Gramercy Park South
Date:
March, 1909
Object Number:
PR.020.19.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Flowers from Grant's Tomb
Object Number:
239
Date:
1885
Medium:
Plant material
Dimensions:
largest: 1/8 x 3/4 in. ( 0.3 x 1.9 cm )
Marks:
handwritten: on accompanying envelope: "Flowers from Genl Grants Tomb/From the Floral Clock which pointed/to 8.08 A.M. the time of his/death on July 23rd 1885."
Description:
Three small white flowers, two with short stems.
Gallery Label:
These flowers are from a floral clock at the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), which pointed to 8:08 a.m., the time of Grant's death on July 23, 1885.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. John E. Stillwell, 1925
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
