Collection Highlights
The Game of Playing Department Store
1898
2000.715
Cardboard, wood, paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Hearing horn
Object name
Hearing horn
Date
1870-1890
Medium
Metal, paper
Dimensions
11 x 3 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Description
A black metal hearing horn, still with the remnants of its original box. The horn comes in two parts and amplifies and directs the sound into the ear through a small tube. The box has a photolithograph of a woman using the horn and reads in black "When All Others Fail/ Try The/ Miss Green/ Hearing Horn/ It Reflects, Condenses/ and Magnifies Sound/ Wonderfully".
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.2524
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.