Collection Highlights
Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.052.56.GrantUniform.Photos.
Medium:
Photograph
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Luce Center
Pin-back button
Object Number:
2002.1.1341
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, at a piano; a sign hangs over thew piano printed with words "If I Had Hair Like Paderewski I Could Play Any Toon". On the reverse it advertises "High Admiral Cigarette and N Y Journal Yellow Kid". A small blue number 45 indicates a series.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
