Object Details
- Artist
- Hubert Latham, 1883-1912
- Physical Description
- Circular metal box with monoplane (Antoinette Monoplane) and pilot in a cloudy sky painted on the lid. Image surrounded by narrow gold border. Sides and bottom metallic red with ornmental gold border pattern on side edge of lid. Interior plain, silver tone. "LATHAM" in black block letters at center bottom. No maker marks on box or lid.
- Summary
- In the first decade after the Wright brothers' first successful flights in 1903, public fascination with aviation grew. The airplane soon became part of popular culture. Airplanes and flight related themes began to appear in jewelry, clocks, games, decorative boxes, postcards, and more. This small decorated box depicts an Antoinette Monoplane.
- ca. 1910
- Inventory Number
- A19840704000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture
- Materials
- Overall: Enameled Brass
- Dimensions
- 3-D (16g): 2.7 × 5.5cm (1 1/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
- Country of Origin
- France
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19840704000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9b797bb85-c7ad-4421-a139-83aadeda14e3
