Collection Highlights
Ma-Nuncue
Date:
After 1826
Object Number:
PR.221.58
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Political novelty
Object Number:
2002.1.4620
Date:
1948
Medium:
Leather, plastic
Dimensions:
5 x 1 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A black plastic men's hair comb in a dark blue flat leather case printed in white "Dewey/ In 1948". Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) of Pawling, Dutchess County, N.Y.; Republican. U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1940; Governor of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President of the United States, 1944, 1948.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
