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Information America
Julia Scher
Metal office desk, five 9" NTSC monitors with metal wall brackets, 13" color monitor, plastic and vinyl signage, three black-and-white surveillance cameras, removable lenses, transformers, video matrix switchers, two time-lapse recorders, Amiga A1200HD computer, Sony Watch-Cam, two media players, desk lamp, office chair, wires and cables · 1995
Museum of Modern Art

Eastern Daylight Flux Time
George Brecht
Engraved metal pocket-watch case, containing objects in various media · 1977
Museum of Modern Art

Compact Object
Natsuyuki Nakanishi
Bones, watch and clock parts, bead necklace, hair, eggshell, lens, and other manufactured objects embedded in polyester · 1962
Museum of Modern Art

Repository
George Brecht
Wall cabinet containing pocket watch, thermometer, plastic and rubber balls, baseball, plastic persimmon, "Liberty" statuette, wood puzzle, toothbrushes, bottlecaps, house number, plastic worm, pocket mirror, lightbulbs, keys, hardware, and photographs · 1961
Museum of Modern Art

Schumacher's Taliesin Line of Decorative Fabrics and Wallpapers Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
45 leaves with 137 fabric swatches and 26 wallpaper swatches · 1955
Art Institute of Chicago

Lapel Watch
Paulding Farnham, American, b. 1859
timepieces & measuring devices, decorative arts, watch — gold, enamel, diamonds · 1889
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Watch fob
Marcus and Co., New York
jewelry, decorative arts, watch fob — leather, gold, stone · 1880
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Manuscrit Lyonnais
Jules Marquis
Silk, satin, gauze and other weaves, some with brocaded patterns: 80 swatches; 53 designs on paper · 1841
Art Institute of Chicago

Montelius Dye Recipe Book with Printed Swatches (No. 11)
John Montelius, Jr.
Cotton, plain weave; printed; total of swatches: 96 · 1833
Art Institute of Chicago

Montelius Dye Recipe Book
John Montelius, Jr.
Cotton, plain weave; printed; total number of swatches: 25 · 1832
Art Institute of Chicago

Woven Silk Fragment Supplemented with Drawing
Paul Schultze
Watercolor with opaque and metallic gold watercolor over pen and crimson and black ink with a swatch of compound twill satin, plain weave, on brown wove paper · 1301
Art Institute of Chicago

Cruciform watch
Saloman Coster
timepieces & measuring devices, decorative arts, watch — gilt-bronze, rock crystal, brass, silver, steel, leather and silk case
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Scrapbook of textile swatches
Miss Virginia Brush
sample books, scrapbook of textile swatches — medium: cotton technique: printed
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum