Plate
notes: label: Description
content: This white glazed earthenware plate is part of a set of four commemorative plates manufactured in England to celebrate the completion of the Erie Canal. This plate honors New York Governor DeWitt Clinton. Clinton was one of the Erie Canal's biggest supporters as a New York politician. He believed that the canal would be, in his words , “a work more stupendous, more magnificent, and more beneficial than has hitherto been achieved by the human race.”
label: Description
content: The plate reads: "THE GRAND ERIE CANAL, A SPLENDID MONUMENT OF THE ENTERPRISE & RESOURCES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INDEBTED FOR ITS EARLY COMMENCE-MENT & RAPID COMPLETION TO THE ACTIVE ENERGIES & ENLIGHTENED POLICY OF DE WITT CLINTON, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE."
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Staffordshire
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Larsen Ceramics
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ellouise Baker Larsen Collection of American Historical Staffordshire China
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.62.998B
label: catalog number
content: 62.998B
label: accession number
content: 171126
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
label: Object Type
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, blue (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/16 in x 10 5/16 in; 2.69875 cm x 26.19375 cm