Subway Presentation Tray and Presentation Case

Presentation tray decorated with border of subway tracks and ties overlain with laurel garland and circular vignettes depicting subway station interiors, a meeting of Rapid Transit commissioners, and subway tunnel construction, portrait medallion of contractor John B. McDonald at upper edge center, well of tray engraved with map of City Hall to 145th Street section of line, and proposed extensions into Bronx and Brooklyn, cast openwork shovel-style handles composed of laurel leaves braced by pairs of pickax heads: one with seal of the City of New York and the other with seal of "Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners for the City of New York 1891-1894."