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Title: Museum gets famous tea urn
Author: Solis-Cohen, Lita
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Date: 3/31/1977
Folder/Item #: Thomson, Charles (1); 16
Notes:
Abstract: Philadelphia Museum of Art has acquired the silver tea urn presented to Congress secretary, Charles Thomson, in 1774 in ‘testimony of their esteem and approbation’; description of the urn and circumstances of its purchase by the museum; picture