A Newcomb College Art Pottery Semi-Matte Glaze Candlestick, 1912, decorated by Sadie Irvine with a relief-carved cotton plant motif, base marked with Newcomb cipher, decorator's mark, Joseph Meyer's potter's mark, and reg. no. FC89, height 6 1/4 in the lean years of the Great Depression, Miss Troy sent a number of Newcomb pieces to colleges, museums and civic organizations around the country. Correspondence found in the Tulane University archives from the 1933-34 academic years indicates that Miss Troy sent nine educational exhibitions of Newcomb work-one of which went to the University of Alabama and one to a high school in Minnesota.