Collection Highlights

Negro Life at the South

Date:

1859

Object Number:

S-225

Medium:

Oil on linen

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Object name

Wax wafers (6)

Date

1850-1900

Medium

Wax, paper

Dimensions

each: 1 in. ( 2.5 cm )

Description

Six orange wax wafers found wrapped inside a scrap of paper with extensive numerical notations handwritten in ink.

Object Number

Z.1501.27a-f

Gallery Label

Found in a box labeled "SEALS in box W/J. BROOKS COOPER NY" with a collection of similar objects.

Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.