Collection Highlights
Cayambe
Date:
1858
Object Number:
S-91
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Pinback button
Object Number:
2002.1.4011
Date:
1896-1920
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 7/8 in. diameter
Description:
A beige pinback button with a color print of a woman's face over a bicycle spoke and tire pattern encircled by the words "Iver Johnson/ Cycles".
Gallery Label:
Iver Johnson was a major bicycle and firearms manufacturer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The illustration on this promotional button depicts a "new woman" arising through a spoked bicycle wheel.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
