Collection Highlights
The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
Date:
Object Number:
PR.068.34
Medium:
Paper, engraving
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Museum Collections
World Trade Center Construction Site, South Tower, December 1969
Object Number:
2012.26.33
Date:
1969
Medium:
Black porous-tip pen on two sheets of ivory paper, taped together, and mounted onto a larger sheet of heavy white paper featuring a print of the New York skyline with an 'X' drawn through it on the ve
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 x 16 1/8 in. (27.1 x 41 cm)
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in black porous-tip pen: "WORLD TRADE / CENTER - / SOUTH TOWER / 12/29/69 / A:M"; verso inscribed along lower right edge vertically: "CBS BUILDING on 6th AVENUE"; above, vertically: "4:30 / 12/29/69[in red porous-tip pen]"; verso of mount: blind stamp in gray ink at lower right: "The Estate of RICHARD WELLING"
Credit Line:
Gift of the Richard Welling Family
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
