Looking Glass

James Stokes

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The backboard of this looking glass retains a label from the shop of James Stokes. Stokes was a merchant who sold looking glasses made by local Philadelphia cabinetmakers at the dry goods store he established at the corner of Front and High Street in 1791.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art