Collection Highlights
Wedding dress
Date:
ca. 1712 with several alterations into the 20th century
Object Number:
1949.115a
Medium:
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
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Tobacco
Object Number:
2002.1.2953
Date:
1910
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
3 3/8 x 1 7/8 x 3/4 in.
Description:
A yellow and white cardboard box that once held ten cigarettes. The front has a color picture of a retriever with a bird in its mouth encircled by hunting paraphernalia such as rifles and reads in red "Hunter Dog Cigarros " and on the side "S. Monday & Sons./ 34, 36, 38, 40 South 1st. St. , Broadway, N.Y." The inside packet reads "The Name of 'Monday' On a Package of Cigars Corresponds to the 'Sterling' Mark on Silver/ Hunter Dog/ All Tobacco Cigarros"." A tobacco tax revenue stamp on the reverse is dated 1910.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
