Collection Highlights
Contraband Camp -- Harper's Ferry, VA
Date:
1865
Object Number:
PR.065.815.7
Medium:
Stereograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
View of Fort Riley, Kansas
Object Number:
1925.193
Date:
1873
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite with touches of gouache on heavy paper, mounted on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 x 21 1/4 in. ( 38.1 x 54 cm )
mat: 22 x 28 in. ( 55.9 x 71.1 cm )
Marks:
date: lower right: "1873"
inscription: lower center: "Fort Riley Kansas / The Monument denoted the Center of the U.S. at that time"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in graphite: "Fort Riley, Kansas."; at lower right: "1873 -- "; below along lower edge: "The Monument denoted the Center of the U.S.at that time"
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
