Collection Highlights
View of Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York
after 1883
1904.22
Black ink, white gouache, and graphite on photo-sensitive paper, laid on card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Advertising/Landauer paperweight
Object name
Advertising/Landauer paperweight
Date
1885-1890
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 7/8 x 4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 2.2 x 10.2 x 6.4 cm )
Description
Colorless glass paperweight; rectangular with rounded corners; "JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO.," business address, and image of a pig with "IRON" inscribed on side printed on top of base panel and visible through top.
Credit Line
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number
1939.401
Marks
printed: on top of base panel: "JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO. / SCOTCH / IRON [within outline of pig] / AMERICAN / 63 Wall Street, New York."
printed: on edge of base panel: ". . . BARNES & ABRAMS CO., SYRACUSE, N.Y."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
