Collection Highlights
An Address to the inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon slave-keeping
Date:
1773
Object Number:
LIB.Y1773.RushAddress
Medium:
Paper, book
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Military Insignia
Object Number:
2002.1.4418
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Metal, cloth, enamel, glass
Dimensions:
1 1/2 x 2 1/4 x 1/2 in.
Description:
A patriotic pin with a gold pin bar decorated with openwork flourishes highlighted with red and white enamel and set with a green glass stone and two handing chains from which dangles a round jug or vase decorated with red, white and green enamel flowers and pink fuzzy fiber coming out of the top opening, representing a bomb, the universal symbol of the grenadier, or grenade carrier. .
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
