Tiffany Glass Paperweight
date: label: date made
content: 2000
notes: label: Description
content: The Tiffany & Co. “Globe Crystal Paperweight,” 4” diameter, first
label: Description
content: appeared in a sales catalog for corporate customers in 1990. It cost
label: Description
content: $550 to purchase.
label: Description
content: Global trade became increasingly important in the late 20th century but can result in problems if not handled well. This chipped and scratched paperweight is an icon of globalism gone wrong. It was recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center following the attacks on September 11, 2001. While the terrorists sought to destroy the Trade Center as a symbolic attack on American Capitalism, in fact the glass paper weight survived. Chipped and damaged, the paperweight, like American business, rose from the ashes of September 11 to carry on.
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
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content: September 11
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0258.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0258
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0258.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: globe
label: Object Name
content: globe, paperweight
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: crystal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 9.525 cm x 10.4775 cm