The Aztec Children: Museum Object and Cultural History
The Aztec Children: Date made: n.d.. advertiser: Barnum Museum. maker: Currier & Ives.
The object in the museum catalogue
Color advertising print of a fashionably dressed couple being waited on by two small Indians. The Indians wear gold-trimmed dresses with sunflower-shaped collars and ankle bands. Testimonial text beneath the image ends with the statement that "These wonderful Children are on exhibition every day and evening at BARNUM's AMERICAN MUSEUM..."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: n.d.
- advertiser: Barnum Museum
- maker: Currier & Ives
- Object Name: lithograph
- Object Type: Lithograph
- Measurements: image: 13 1/4 in x 9 in; 33.655 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- Subject: European History
- Subject: Expositions and Fairs
- Subject: Flowers
- Subject: Marriage
- Subject: Costume
- Subject: Circus
- Subject: Civic Associations
- depicted: Indians
- ID Number: DL.60.3491
- catalog number: 60.3491
- Credit Line: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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