Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Strap
Object Number:
INV.8671ll
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Leather, metal
Dimensions:
overall (as rolled): 1 1/8 x 3 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. ( 2.9 x 9.8 x 10.5 cm )
Description:
Brown leather strap with 9 perferated holes, leather-covered buckle frame with single metal tongue.
Gallery Label:
This leather strap was among the items found in the footlocker of William H. Paine, who served as a surveyor with the Army engineers during the Civil War. Paine was responsible for devising systems and tools to better facilitate the surveyor's tasks, including patenting a coiled steel tape measure.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Isidore L. Rosenzweig, in Memory of Bessie and Isidore L. Rosenzweig, 1978
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
