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Numismatics
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Explore image in Subject: Christopher Columbus, Spanish, 1451–1506
Subject: George Washington, American, 1732–1799, LL.D. 1781
Artist: Unknown
Medal of the World’s Columbian Exposition
1890
White Metal
63.37 g, 12:00, 58.5 mm
Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Francis Bacon Trowbridge, B.A. 1887, L.L.B. 1890
2001.87.29160
Geography:
Made in United States
Status:
Culture:
American
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Numismatics
Provenance:
Reverend T. C. Trowbridge, to April 3, 1873; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1873–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
