2013 Finalist National Medal for Museum and Library Service

Collection Highlights

Dressing table
1795-1810
INV.14982
Mahogany, mahogany and other inlays, white pine, yellow poplar
Possible Original Owner: Margaret Maria Livingston

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Button/ clothing

Button/ clothing
Object name 
Button/ clothing
Date 
1910-1920
Medium 
Metal
Dimensions 
1/4 x 5/8 in. diameter
Description 
Three small black metal military clothes buttons, the tops embossed with a spread winged eagle behind a shield with laurel branches and arrows in its talons and a "E Pluribus Unum" banner in its beak, on a globe and over a banner embossed "Excelsior". The reverse are engraved "City Button Works/ N. Y. " Probably vintage World War I.
Credit Line 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number 
2002.1.3371
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.