Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Pin-back button
Object Number:
2002.1.1338
Date:
1896-1910
Medium:
Metal, paper, celluloid
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
This lapel button features Outcault's Yellow Kid, the first comic strip, holding a huge beer mug; his gown reads "Gee I Wouldn't Drink Many Like Dis". On the reverse it advertises "High Admiral Cigarettes/ Riley-Klotz M'f'g. Co./ Newark, N.J." and lists patent dates of 1894 and 1896. A small blue number 1 indicates a series.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
