Collection Highlights
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
Date:
1864
Object Number:
LIB.E185.62.C76.1864
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Powder Horn: Josiah Benton (R-80), Two Sides Depicted, with a Vignette View of the Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, Massachusetts
Object Number:
1907.36.259
Date:
1892
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and blue metallic pigment, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. ( 32.4 x 38.4 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed center: Rufus A. Grider/ 1892. Bottom right: Rufus A. Grider / of Canajoharie N.Y.
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed at lower right in black ink: "This interesting relic...Rufus A Grider / of Canajoharie N.Y. / 1892."; at middle right: "The / JOSIAH BENTON"; at lower left: "JOSIAH BENTON of TOLLAND Connt....", followed by an extensive history of the horn; at center below vignette: "BUNKER HILL MONUMENT from the Boston & Maine R.R...."; historical annotations in graphite on verso
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
