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Object ID #907214107

This is a Book. It was published by Henry Holt and Company, Inc..

The jacket for French diplomat and author Paul Morand’s 1930 book aimed at visitors to New York illustrates how they would have arrived—via ocean liner—and the skyscrapers they would have seen.

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  • Vase Vase
  • silver plated, nickel.
  • Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and General....
  • 1993-111-1
  • Vase
  • glazed earthenware.
  • Gift of George R. Kravis II.
  • 2015-41-5

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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