Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
ca. 1866
1921.20
Steel
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Button/ clothing
Object name
Button/ clothing
Date
1910-1920
Medium
Metal
Dimensions
1/4 x 5/8 in. diameter
Description
Two small gray cast metal military clothes buttons, the tops embossed with two cannons crossed over an anchor. Probably prior to World War I.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.