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Two fragments from Hershey's milk chocolate candy wrappers, retained by Joseph Cornell, ca. 1942-1943.

BIB_ID
406056
Accession number
MA 8615.13-14
Display Date
ca. 1942-1943.
Credit line
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description
2 items; each approx. 3.5 x 3.3 cm
Notes
Part of Joseph Cornell's Saint-Exupéry dossier (MA 8615), a collection of drawings and ephemera that Cornell assembled to document his friendship with Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.
Provenance
Joseph Cornell; his sister Helen Jagger; her daughter Helen Jagger Batcheller; her son Edward Batcheller.
Summary
Significance of the candy wrappers unknown; they may have been shared by Cornell and Antoine and/or Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.