Recataloged

Museum number:
7-923
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
2-34021 (museum number (recataloged to))
Accession number:
Acc.369
Description:
Aluminum medal from Chicago, minted in 1893. On obverse busts of Columbus and C. W. G. Ferris; inscription “World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago Souvenir Medal”; 1492, 1893”; “The Ferris Wheel Dimensions” and lists dimensions. On reverse “Ferris Wheel, Greatest Mechanical Achievement of the Age” and picture of the Ferris Wheel.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), Chicago, Illinois
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1893
Materials:
Aluminum (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Placeholder record (no associated object)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Production date:
1893
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Recataloged, accession number 7-923, described as Aluminum medal from Chicago, minted in 1893. On obverse busts of Columbus and C. W. G. Ferris; inscription “World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago Souvenir Medal”; 1492, 1893”; “The Ferris Wheel Dimensions” and lists dimensions. On reverse “Ferris Wheel, Greatest Mechanical Achievement of the Age” and picture of the Ferris Wheel.

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