Collection Highlights
Wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris
Date:
ca. 1780
Object Number:
1954.148
Medium:
Oak, leather, metal
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Luce Center
Shopping bag
Object Number:
2002.1.1893
Date:
1980-2000
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
17 x 12 1/2 in.
Description:
This paper shopping bag has a heavy white twisted fiber handle and is printed with a full color scene from Maurice Sendak's classic childrens' book "Where The Wild Things Are". One side has a sailing boat by a shore with strange trees and the other has a large monster sleeping under similar trees. The sides read "Where The Wild Things Are/ Story and Pictures By Maurice Sendak".
Credit Line:
The Bella C. Landauer Collection of Business and Advertising Ephemera
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
