Collection Highlights
Controller handle
1904
1922.103
Silver, steel, ceramic
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Ashtray
Object name
Ashtray
Date
ca. 1939
Medium
Glass with applied felt bottom and inset printed image
Description
Glass ashtray with inset printed image featuring Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939 World's Fair.
Credit Line
Gift of Katherine Hill
Object Number
2006.7.1
Gallery Label
The donor, who visited the 1939 World's Fair as a child, recalls that her mother, Catherine Pichelmann Hill (1907-1991), purchased this ashtray at a Woolworth's in the Bronx as a souvenir of the fair.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
