Collection Highlights
Fraktur: Birth and Baptism certificate of Joseph Flor
Date:
1811
Object Number:
PR.022.13
Medium:
Hand-colored print
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Luce Center
Medallion
Object Number:
2002.1.3356
Date:
1928
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/4 x 2 7/8 in. diameter
Description:
A bronze medallion with a relief on one side of workers operating complex engraving machinery with gears and pulleys and drive belts surrounded by the words "Medallic Art Company/ Artisitic Medals Plaques/ Insignia and Galvanos/ All Dies Made Direct From Sculptors Models/ 210 East Fifty-First Street/ New York". On the reverse, a worker operating a pantographic lathe, following the contours of a model of the head of the Statue of Liberty to produce a replica of another size. It is embossed "Statuary/ Bas Reliefs/ Reduced and Enlarged/ MCMII/ MCMXXVII".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
