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Fan

Description: Folding fan. Guards and sticks of lightly carved ivory (bone?) with scrolling foliate designs. The leaf is of white lace. Sticks are unadorned on the reverse. No visible labels, marks or signatures. Fan has alternately been identified as Irish lace or machine-made lace, and dated 1830's or 1880-1899.
Date: 1880/1899
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Purse

Description: Handbag with cast and chased silver frame decorated with openwork figures of children harvesting grapes. Ball/snap closure. Silver suspension chain of alternating oval links and links formed of three flower-heads. Bag is oval shaped, black wool with petite point embroidery decoration on each side of a bouquet of trumpet shaped flowers. Pink satin lining. Hallmarked "800" on frame.
Date: 1880/1889
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Glass Slide of Paris From Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)

Description: A glass slide showing a photograph of Paris, taken from the top of the Eiffel Tower looking North. The Palais du Trocadero, in view in the background, was built in 1878 for the World's Fair, but was demolished and replaced by the Palais de Chaillot for the 1937 World's Fair. The slide is numbered No. 46.
Date: [1882..1929]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Glass Slide of the Hotel national des Invalides (Paris, France)

Description: A glass slide showing the interior of Les Invalides, commonly known as Hotel national des Invalides (The National Residence of the Invalids) in Paris, France. The Hotel is a complex of buildings containing museums and monuments, as well as the Dome des Invalides, a large church with the tombs of some of France's war heroes, most notably Napoleon Bonaparte.
Date: [1882..1929]
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

World's Fair of Paris 1889: Commemorative Certificate

Description: Certificate from the 1889 World's Fair in Paris commemorating an exhibit of vines by Thomas Munson. The text is bordered by detailed illustrations including cherubs or angels at the top, on either side of a coat of arms labeled "equality"; columns on either side with dates and text labels 1789 at left (with "liberty" at the top and "commerce" at the bottom) and 1889 at right (with "brotherhood" at top and "industry" at bottom); and book below the text, held open by a branch and ribbon.
Date: 1889
Creator: Exposition universelle de 1889 (Paris, France)
Partner: Dallas Historical Society

[French Exposition Medal]

Description: Souvenir medal from the world's fair held in Paris, featuring a number of symbolic images. On one side, there is a woman seated beneath a tree, holding out a laurel crown to a man at left; at the bottom is an image of the exposition space with the Eiffel Tower. Text around the image says "Exposition Universelle" around the edge and the year, 1889, near the center. The other side has an angel blowing a trumpet in a tree, below a star, with her arm around the bust of a person wearing laurels (… more
Date: 1889
Creator: Bottée, Louis Alexandre
Partner: Dallas Historical Society

Folding fan

Description: Folding fan. Guards and sticks of carved and pierced ivory (bone?) with a foliage designs. The white sheer doubled organdy leaf is hand-painted with central vignette of a garden scene of a couple greeting a woman seated on a bench. The leaf with added hand-panted border of a garland of flowers. Reverse is unadorned. No visible labels, marks or signatures.
Date: 1880/1989
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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