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Cayambe
1858
S-91
Oil on canvas
Artist/Maker: Frederic Edwin Church

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Ashtray

Ashtray
Object name 
Ashtray
Date 
1937
Medium 
Metal
Dimensions 
Diameter: 4 in., height: 1/2 in.
Description 
This copper colored metal ashtray has a relief in the center of the front of a 1930's car with large fenders and a long grill and the words "General Motors". Surruonding the image are the words "Who Serves Progress/ Serves America". From the GM Waldorf Show of 1937. See also 2002.1.293a and b for an identical item still in original box.
Credit Line 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer