Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Paperweight
Object Number:
2002.1.1532
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Metal, paper, plastic
Dimensions:
3/8 x 4 in. diameter
Description:
This bright orange disk has four photographs of New York Subway stations on one side and reads in black "Concrete For Permanence/ Six Million Barrels/ Giant Portland Cement/ In N.Y. City Subways, Tunnels and Water supply." On the reverse a very poor drawing of the Sphinx with the caption "Egypt", and the words "Giant Portland Cement Co./ Portland Cement/ Philadelphia- New York- Boston".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
