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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Oh What Are the Prizes We Perish to Win
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Oh What Are the Prizes We Perish to Win

Artist Herbert Adams (American, 1858 - 1945)
Maker Society of Medallic Arts
CultureAmerican
Date1934
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 2 7/8 x 2 13/16 in. (7.3 x 7.1 cm)
Inscribed"Oh what are the prizes we perish to win" on obverse. "To the first little shiner we caught with a pin" on reverse.
Credit LineGift of Mrs. John Taylor Arms
Object number54.51.154
On View
Not on view
DescriptionYoung child stands in shallow water holding a fishing line.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Adolph Alexander Weinman
1904
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Adolph Alexander Weinman
1904
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Adolph Alexander Weinman
1904
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Edward McCartan
1939
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Ovide Yencesse
ca. 1900
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Alexander Stirling Calder
1938
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Brenda Putnam
Copyright 1941, issued 1942
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2015.
William Adams & Co.
ca. 1789-1809
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Robert Ingersoll Aitken
1937