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Unknown artistUnknown artist, United Clock Corp, Brooklyn, New York
Description
Desk clock with busts of US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (top), Chairman of the National Recovery Administration Hugh Johnson (lower left), and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (lower right). On the face a figure of Roosevelt with mechanical arms stands behind a bar and shakes a cocktail shaker, an allusion to the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Inscribed "The Spirit of the U.S.A." on the base.
Date 1934
date QS:P571,+1934-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 10.7 in (27.3 cm); width: 11 in (27.9 cm); depth: 6 in (15.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,10.75U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11U218593
dimensions QS:P5524,6U218593
institution QS:P195,Q148584
Accession number
217442; ID number PL.217442.087
Place of creation Brooklyn, New York
Credit line Arnold Miles Collection of Political Americana
References National Museum of American History, record ID: nmah_497256.
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Author Crawdad Blues
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