Collection Highlights
Petition to Abraham Lincoln for recruitment of black troops
Date:
ca. 1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Petitions
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Paperweight, white underlay
Object Number:
1965.437
Date:
1845-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. ( 5.7 x 8.3 cm )
Marks:
handwritten in ink: on various labels affixed to base: "610a", "L.266. / 2.77", "65. / 610", [etc.]
Description:
Colorless lead glass paperweight with internal millefiori garland design; flatterned sphere, with red canes in groups enclosed in sodden snow around a central large ruffled white cane; perimeter of blue-lined cogged canes drawing under to the center of the base.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
