Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1948-1952
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 3/4 in. diameter
Description:
A pinback campaign button divided horizontally into red, white and blue sections that reads "Truman" in blue across the center white section.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3784
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1952
eMuseum Object ID:
52064
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1948
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
Two dark blue pinback campaign buttons both printed in white "Wallace/ '48". Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-40; Vice President of the United States, 1941-45; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1945-46; and the Progressive candidate against Truman for President of the United States, 1948.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3782
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1948
eMuseum Object ID:
52063
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1940
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 14 in. diameter
Description:
A yellow pinback campaign button printed in blue "Vandenberg". Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, (1884-1951), Newspaper editor and publisher; member of Michigan Republican State Central Committee, 1912-18; U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1928-51, a candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1940.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3781
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
52062
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1940
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper
Dimensions:
1/4 x 1 3/4 in. diameter
Description:
A large ivory colored pinback campaign button printed in blue "Vandenberg/ For President". Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, (1884-1951), Newspaper editor and publisher; member of Michigan Republican State Central Committee, 1912-18; U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1928-51, a candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1940.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3780
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
52061
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Platter
Classification:
Date:
1925-1950
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 16 x 1 3/4 in. oval
Description:
A bright yellow painted oval metal platter or bowl with a wide rim and a hand-painted amateur rendering of Rea Irvin's famous New Yorker magazine cover character, Eustace Tilley.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3638
Gallery Label:
As the New Yorker magazine's first art editor, Irvin (1881-1972) created a style that continues to define the publication to this day--witty, urbane, and socially and culturally aware. Born in San Francisco, Irvin started his career in illustration as an unpaid cartoonist for The San Francisco Examiner. His only formal training consisted of six months' study at the Hopkins Art Institute. At the age of 25, he moved to the East Coast and was soon a regular contributor to Life and Cosmopolitan magazines. In 1924, Irvin joined an advisory board to help launch The New Yorker. For the cover of the magazine's debut issue the next year, Irvin created Eustace Tilley, a smartly attired dandy with a monocle and top hat. This amusing and worldly, yet somewhat detached, character embodied the spirit of the new publication. Tilley quickly became Irvin's signature piece and has reappeared on the magazine's cover every year since, with one exception--1994.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
52057
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bowl
Classification:
Date:
1900-1930
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
2 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. diameter
Description:
A cobalt blue very deep bowl, with a scalloped edge with raised decoration and gold borders around a central white field printed with red, yellow and pink roses with green leaves below the inscription in gold "Compliments/ H.S. Kincaid & Co./ House Furnishers./ Quincy, Mass."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3637
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
52056
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1900-1920
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
2 x 9 in. diameter
Description:
A cream colored ceramic advertising plate decorated with raised dot patterns covering the surface and an applied, very raised, clay relief of pink roses with yellow centers and green, red and yellow mottled leaves in a crescent around the raised words, highlighted with red and black paint, "Chew Rose Leaf Fine Cut" (tobacco).
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3636
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
52055
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Store display
Classification:
Date:
1930-1950
Medium:
Plaster, wood, metal
Dimensions:
6 1/4 x 16 x 3 in.
Description:
A badly broken liquor store display figurine of a Scotsman with a red beard in a brown jacket, red and green kilt, knee socks and a black tam holding a bottle on a green pedestal that reads in black "The Real 'Sandy Mac'/ Sandy MacDonald Blended Sctoch Whiskey/ Proof 86.6".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3635
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
52054
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Commemorative cup
Classification:
Date:
1899
Medium:
Wood, cloth
Dimensions:
7 x 4 1/8 in. diameter
Description:
Ornately carved chalice made from two coconuts, a larger one open at the top and lined with cloth mounted onto a smaller coconut carved into a pedestal. Top carved with relief portrait of a man, laurel wreaths, award medallions and the words "Recuerdo Al Illustre Americano/ 1899 Gen'l Guzman Blanco/ 27 Abril 1870"; pedestal carved with sailing ships.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3634
Gallery Label:
Guzman-Blanco was a despotic president of Venezuela, born in Caracas in 1830. He accompanied General Juan C. Falcon in his invasion of Venezuela, becoming his general secretary. After the final defeat of Falcon at Cople in September 1860, Guzman accompanied his chief in his flight. Toward the end of 1861 he landed again with Falcon in Venzuela, and after numerous battles, the treaty of Coche was signed on 22 May 1863 calling for a general assembly that eventually elected Falcon president and Guzman-Blanco vice president. Later he was elected president of the congress. After the overthrow of Falcon in 1868, Guzman left the country, but headed a revolution in 1869, and in 1870 became provisional president with extraordinary powers, ruling the country for years as a dictator. He was succeeded by General Alcantara who died in December 1878, precipitating revolutionary uprisings until Guzman assumed the presidency again. In the elections of 1883 General Joaquin Crespo, one of his friends, was declared president and Guzman-Blanco became ambassador to France, living with great ostentation in Paris. In 1886 he again assumed the presidency but was overthrown for the last time in the 1888 revolution. He died in 1899.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1899
eMuseum Object ID:
52053
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Elevated train sign
Classification:
Date:
1870-1955
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
20 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description:
A black metal street sign with embossed lettering highlighted in white from the New York Sixth Avenue Elevated Train line that reads "6th Ave. Local". One of nine from the system. The first elevated trains appeared in the 1870s in Manhattan. They ran over the streets of Second, Third, Sixth, and Ninth Avenues and had structures made of cast iron. Early service on the el was provided by cable car but constant breakdowns led to the shutdown of the lines. The el lines reopened in 1871 with steam engines pulling the former cable cars in Manhattan and later the wooden coaches were converted for electric operation. Bronx el service was intoduced in the mid 1880s. The Manhattan system was leased to the IRT in 1903 for 999 years but most els were taken down in the 1940s while the 3rd Avenue El's Manahttan system survived until 1955 and the Bronx portion until 1973.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3528
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1955
eMuseum Object ID:
52051
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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