Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989 : the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, inclusive
"Compiled and edited under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, Congress of the United States ... Bruce A. Ragsdale, editor in chief ... Kathryn Allamong Jacob, editor in chief"--P. v.
Rev. ed. of: Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum ; Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design,
Date of Publication
1982.
Physical Description
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Series
The Smithsonian illustrated library of antiques
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 123.
Summary
Beginning with some of the earliest examples available to us, William Ketchum describes splendid boxes of ivory, ebony, gold and alabaster from the tomb of Tutankhamun; a gold-leaf box inlaid with mother-of-pearl and lapis lazuli, and other such precious boxes.
