Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Museum Collections
Historical Artifacts
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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Tailcoat | 1900-1920 | 1941.235a |
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Vest | 1901 | 1941.236b |
| Buttons | 1830-1880 | INV.6819a-m | |
| Child's purse: seal skin | 1850-1900 | INV.11307 | |
| Purse | 1860-1890 | 1941.26 | |
| brace | 1850-1900 | 1957.214 | |
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Decorative box:inlaid | 1800-1830 | 1104 |
| Spectacles (folding) | 1840-1860 | INV.7710 | |
| Pair of shoes | 1800-1900 | INV.5451ab | |
| Fan | 1900-1930 | 1956.173.8[dup] |
