Mortar and pestle. Cylindrical, two-handled bronze mortar with a flared lip; incised horizontal lines decorate the exterior of the mortar; handles are roughly rectangular, with concave sides; slender, cylindrical bronze pestle with clubbed ends. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar. Bowl-shaped stone mortar with two handles shaped like women's faces; one handle has a small, scooped out portion so it can function as a spout; reliefs of a tragic comic Greek mask and lyre also decorate body of mortar. This mortar is likely a neoclassical reproduction of a much earlier style of mortar. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptac...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Two members of the Atlas Club box, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Atlas Club was one of several Jewish social clubs in the Twin Cities operating during the early 1900s to the 1920s. The clubs were a response to the fact that "downtown" social clubs such as the Athletic Clubs would not admit Jews. The Atlas Club was absorbed into Gymea Doled in 1919.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Two men work in an office in New York. The man seated at the desk wears a large crucifix around his neck. Greek letters are printed on the front of a cabinet or safe.
Creator:
Underwood and Underwood, New York
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
