Museum Collections
Luce Center
Plate: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Object name
Plate: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date
ca. 1942
Medium
Whiteware
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/4 x 10 3/8 in. ( 3.2 x 26.4 cm )
Description
Molded, red transfer printed plate with highlights in red, blue, yellow, and green enamel; border pattern of stars & stripes; central view college with FDR portrait at center, planes and parachutes above and land and sea battle scenes below.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
1944.217
Marks
printed: in red below portrait: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt/ PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/ SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES"
printed: in red on back: "THE UNITED STATES...IN ACTION" , "With confidence in our armed forces...", "Decmeber 8, 1941, 12:30 PM, at joint session..", "by /VERNON KILNS/U.S.A"
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.





