Collection Highlights
Slant-front desk
Date:
1777-1794
Object Number:
1947.461
Medium:
Mahogany
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Luce Center
Food spear
Object Number:
2002.1.4540
Date:
1950-1990
Medium:
Plastic
Dimensions:
5 1/2 x 1/2 in.
Description:
This red plastic food spear has a flat tab on one end as a handle and an arrow point on the other for spearing fruit for a cocktail or appetizers. The tab end reads in black " 'Streamliner'/ 'City of Denver' ". Union Pacific¿s first Streamliner ran from Kansas City to Denver and was a focus of the development of diesel trains between 1934 and 1950.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
