Plate
Classification:
Date:
1911
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
3/4 x 8 1/2 in. diameter
Description:
A cream colored ceramic calendar plate for the year 1911, with gold floral borders encircling the months and a printed multicolored scene of brown and white rabbits in the grass with tall red flowers, below the words in gold, "Compliments/ Burgers Furniture Stores/ Schenectady/ Newburgh/ Poughkeepsie/ Glens Falls, N.Y."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3578
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1911
eMuseum Object ID:
51632
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1912
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
1 x 8 3/8 in. diameter
Description:
A cream colored ceramic calendar plate for the year 1912, with the months decorated with green and pink floral and leaf designs encircling a central multicolored patriotic lithograph showing the liberty bell on a pedestal with a sundial above an eagle and shield all flanked by American flags. In gold at the bottom "Compliments of/ John Wannamaker/ Philadelphia".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3576
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1912
eMuseum Object ID:
51631
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1909
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
3/4 x 8 3/4 in. diameter
Description:
A cream colored ceramic calendar plate for the year 1909, with the months decorated with light green, pink and yellow floral designs encircling a central brownish-red transfer print of a brownstone store with a sign that reads "E.A. Lambert/ Plumbing Heating", above "184 DeKalb Avenue/ Brooklyn, N.Y."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3575
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1909
eMuseum Object ID:
51630
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Store display
Classification:
Date:
1940-1960
Medium:
Plaster, plastic
Dimensions:
10 x 11 1/2 x 6 in.
Description:
A store display advertising bust of a man in a red fireman's helmet and a pale blue slicker, with black plastic glasses and a ruddy red complexion smudged with ashes. The helmet has a five pointed star crossed by the letter "T" on the front above the words "Texaco/ Fire-Chief", a brand of gasoline available from the 1940's through the 1970's.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3574
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1960
eMuseum Object ID:
51629
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Relic
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
4 3/8 x 2 in. diameter
Description:
An early single filament electric light bulb. Reported to be a gift to James Landauer from the grandson of the owner of the first electric company in southern Michigan.
Credit Line:
Gift of James D. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3573
Gallery Label:
According to the envelope the object was sent in, the light bulb was "acquired by the donor from a grandson of the owner of the first electric company in southern Michigan, which he acquires as a result of his ownership of the local horse-drawn raliroad company which had to forego horses and run by electricity."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
51628
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sewing notion
Classification:
Date:
1890-1930
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
6 x 1 3/4 in. diameter
Description:
An oval ball shaped wood sewing or darning form with a removable handle.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3570
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
51627
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sewing notion
Classification:
Date:
1890-1930
Medium:
Wood, metal
Dimensions:
4 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. diameter
Description:
A mushroom shaped wood darning or sewing form, the top unscrews from the handle to expose a compartment for storing needles, two long examples of which are inside.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3569
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
51626
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Decoy
Classification:
Date:
1910-1930
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
16 x 8 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A cardboard duck decoy with the image of a duck printed onto the front and back in black and white. A wood stiffener is inserted in the bottom for buoyancy and stability. The bottom reads in part "Johnson's Folding Fiberboard Decoys/ Wm. Johnson Co., Inc./ 72 Columbia Street/ Seattle. U.S.A./ Adjust balancing device straight down as shown, and these decoys will ride perfectly in any weather.../ Price 55 Cents Each- Bodies Without Floats 35 Cents Each."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3449
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
51625
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Decoy
Classification:
Date:
1910-1930
Medium:
Paper, wood
Dimensions:
16 x 8 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A cardboard duck decoy with the realistic photographic image of the duck lithographed onto the front and back in black and white. A wood stiffener is inserted in the bottom for buoyancy and stability. The bottom reads in part "Johnson's Folding Fiberboard Decoys/ Wm. Johnson Co., Inc./ 72 Columbia Street/ Seattle. U.S.A./ Adjust balancing device straight down as shown, and these decoys will ride perfectly in any weather.../ Price 55 Cents Each- Bodies Without Floats 35 Cents Each."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3448
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
51624
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Store display
Classification:
Date:
1880-1900
Medium:
Wood, glass, paper
Dimensions:
29 1/2 x 14 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.
Description:
Wood and paper diorama of the stores, lamposts and hitching posts on a block in New York City in a glass case. Brick and wood buildings with porches have been represented and several are marked, from the right "Broadway House"; "Bowden's Fringe, Cord, Tassle and Fly Net Manufactory/ 456 Hannington 458/ Colonade"; "P. Caseman Olympic House"; "McRobert's Halfway House"; "Broadway Academy"; "446/ New York/ Tattersalls", "Olympic"; "Patent Billiard Table/ Ware Room/ 456/ Crummles Hall"; "Havana House".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3447
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
51623
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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