Collection Highlights
Dragonfly table lamp
Date:
ca. 1900-1906
Object Number:
N84.113.1
Medium:
Glass, bronze
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Tacks excavated at West Point
Object Number:
INV.5925.359-362
Date:
1790-1820
Medium:
Brass
Dimensions:
largest: 1/2 x 3/8 in. ( 1.3 x 1 cm )
Description:
Brass tacks excavated at West Point.
Gallery Label:
These tacks were excavated by the Field Exploration Committee from a refuse dump near the nineteenth-century barracks at West Point, a series of forts and barracks in Orange County, New York built by the Continental Army in 1777.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
