Office supply
Classification:
Date:
1880-1900
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
3 3/4 x 7/8 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A long narrow beige box with brown borders and printed in brown on the front "Eagle Copying Leads/ Pat. June 26, 1877./ For Automatic Pencils/ Size A, Pat. May 29, 1879.../ !/4 Dozen Best Copying Leads/ No. 941". The reverse has instructions for use. One lead refill remains inside.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4696
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
53478
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Office supply
Classification:
Date:
1920-1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
3 x 3/8 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A long narrow bright yellow tin with a sliding top over a blue base. The top is printed in blue "Fineline/ Thin Leads/ HB Medium F15", and on the side "Sheaffer's". Held lead refills for mechanical pencils.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4695
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
53477
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Office supply
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
1 5/8 x 1 1/4 x 3/4 in.
Description:
A cardboard box covered in multicolored floral print paper with a white paper band applied around the box as a seal printed in green "Joseph Gillott's/ No. 290". On the reverse "Caution/ J.G. regrets to say, certain disreputable Makers have tried to impose upon the Public a spurious article, bearing the mis-spelled name of the Patentee thus 'Gilott' or 'Gillot'. Please observe, All The Genuine Pens Are Marked In Full 'Joseph Gillott'; and every Packet bears a fac-simile of his signature, thus...". Inside are approx. 80 pen nibs.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4694
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
53476
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Office supply
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
1 7/8 x 1 x 3/8 in.
Description:
A tiny blue cardboard box with white borders printed in white on the top and bottom "Spencerian/ Steel Pens/ Counting House/ Made in England". On the sides "No. 2". Probably held pen nibs.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4693
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
53475
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button with ribbon
Classification:
Date:
1904
Medium:
Celluloid, metal, paper, ribbon
Dimensions:
2 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A white pinback campaign button, mounted on a long red, white and blue ribbon, with central portraits of Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Warren Fairbanks inside gold oval frames separated by an American flag. The ribbon is printed on gold "General Division/ Wholesale Dry Goods/ Nov. 1, 1904". Charles Warren Fairbanks, (1852-1918);Ohio; Republican; U.S. Senator from Indiana, 1897-1905; Vice President of the United States, 1905-09; defeated, 1916; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1908, 1916.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4597
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1904
eMuseum Object ID:
53474
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Collar Clip
Classification:
Date:
1940-1945
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 7/8 in. diameter
Description:
A white metal collar clip printed in green "Don't Join/ Jim Crow/ Army". Probably a reference to the movement to discourage African-American enlistment during World War II in response to the persistence of institutionalized segregation and discrimination in the U.S. Army during that era.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4595
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1945
eMuseum Object ID:
53473
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Collar Clip
Classification:
Date:
1949-1953
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 7/8 in. diameter
Description:
A white metal collar clip printed in blue "For Mayor/ Impellitteri/ Vote Row 'G'/ Column 6". Vincent R. Impellitteri, (1900-1987) of New York, N.Y.; Democrat; Mayor of New York, N.Y., 1950-53; defeated, 1953; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1952.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4594
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1953
eMuseum Object ID:
53472
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Campaign token
Classification:
Date:
1936-1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 in. diameter
Description:
Campaign tokenembossed on the front with an elephant over the words "Hoover/ Lucky Pocket Piece". On the reverse "Good For 4 Years Of Prosperity".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4593
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
53471
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Campaign token
Classification:
Date:
1936-1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 in. diameter
Description:
A gold colored metal campaign token embossed on the front with a key surrounded by the words "Open The Gates of Prosperity/ With Wendell Willkie". On the reverse, an eagle and an elephant and the words "Token of Belief In Wendell Willkie".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4592
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
53470
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Campaign token
Classification:
Date:
1960-1968
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 5/8 in. diameter
Description:
An aluminum campaign token embossed on the front with three overlapping profile portraits, Lincoln, Eisenhower and Nixon, encircled by "A Profile Of Integrity". On the reverse, an eagle encircled by "Your Country-Your Dollar/ Vote Republican".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4591
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1968
eMuseum Object ID:
53466
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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