Object Details
- presenter
- City of New York
- recipient
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- manufacturer
- Balfour and Co.
- Description
Key to the City Hall of New York. During her national tours, communities awarded jazz vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald, a key to their city. It is a metal key in a brown velvet covered metal box in an original carboard container. The key is cast:
MAYOR DAVID N. DINKINS
There is an engraved brass plate on the box lid:
FACSIMILE OF KEY
MADE IN 1812
FOR THE DOOR OF
CITY HALL, NEW YORK- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
- ID Number
- 1996.0342.049.14
- accession number
- 1996.0342
- catalog number
- 1996.0342.049.14
- Object Name
- key
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- fabric (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.5 cm x 15.2 cm x .5 cm; 2 9/16 in x 6 in x 3/16 in
- key: 5/16 in x 6 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; .79375 cm x 15.5575 cm x 6.35 cm
- case: 1 1/8 in x 6 5/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 16.8275 cm x 8.5725 cm
- box: 1 1/2 in x 6 7/8 in x 3 11/16 in; 3.81 cm x 17.4625 cm x 9.36625 cm
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Awards and Prizes
- Record ID
- nmah_1190814
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-51d7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
