Luce Closure
The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture will be closed for renovations from July 6, 2014 through December 2016. Please check back in the fall for details of our exciting new galleries and installations.
Museum Collection Highlights
Chatelaine
ca. 1761
1954.179a-d
Silver gilt, gold, enamel, ivory, chalcedony, glass, paint
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Museum Collections
Historical Artifacts
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| Title | Related People |
Date |
Object Number | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Tammany Bank |
|
ca. 1875 |
1937.1237 |
 |
Slave shackles |
ca. 1866 |
1921.20 |
|
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Draft wheel |
ca. 1863 |
1865.6 |
|
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Fire engine condenser case of the Clinton Fire Company No. 41 |
ca. 1842 |
1937.1631 |
|
 |
Architect's Sign |
ca. 1837 |
1953.197 |
|
 |
Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati |
|
ca. 1802 |
1972.12ab |
 |
Wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris |
ca. 1780 |
1954.148 |
|
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Civil Defense Volunteer Organization Uniform |
1942-1945 |
1946.89a-c |
|
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Framed leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier |
1865 |
1947.47 |
|
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Cake board |
1825-1835 |
1937.1562 |
