Collection Highlights
Wedding dress: yellow brocade with lace
1730-50 with several alterations into the 20th century
1949.115a
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Clock part
Object name
Clock part
Date
1871
Medium
Metal
Dimensions
5 x 2 1/4 x 1 in.
Description
This green painted metal part is embossed with designs and has holes in either end for screw mounting. It appears to be trim for a metal clock as it is embossed on the back "The Parker & Whipple/ Co./ Patented/ Feb. 28, 1871". Parker & Whipple were clockmakers.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.512d
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.