Collection Highlights
Illustrations of cholera asphyxia in its different stages. Selected from cases treated at the Cholera Hospital, Rivington Street
Date:
1832
Object Number:
LIB.Y1832.Bart.Cholera
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Printing/ medallion
Object Number:
2002.1.3297
Date:
1930
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/4 x 3 in. diameter
Description:
A dark bronze medallion with an embossed portrait on one side of a man witha mushtache encircled by the words "American India Ink/ Chas. M. Higgins/ Inventor". On the reverse is an eagle on top of an ink bottle flanked by an oil lamp marked "A Solution of Carbon" and a lion marked "Quick and Sure To Catch", all above the words "Fiftieth Anniversary/ 1880-1930". Encircling the images on the back "Higgins Ink and Adhesives/ Chas. M. Higgins & Co., Inc."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
