Cigarette silk
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Cloth
Dimensions:
7 x 9 in.
Description:
A natural beige silk cloth printed with a flag marked "Norway", red divided by a blue cross with white borders. Printed "Zira Cigarettes" at the bottom edge. One of a series of historical world flags. Given as collectible premiums by cigarette manufacturers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2856
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
50904
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cigarette silk
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Cloth
Dimensions:
7 x 9 in.
Description:
A natural beige silk cloth printed with a flag half green and half red with a central gold circle and shield crest marked "New Portugal". New Portugal was the original name of Brazil, prior to 1800. Printed "Zira Cigarettes" at the bottom edge. One of a series of historical world flags. Given as collectible premiums by cigarette manufacturers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2855
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
50903
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cigarette silk
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Cloth
Dimensions:
7 x 9 in.
Description:
A natural beige silk cloth printed with a white flag diagonally divided by a blue cross with a red corner field with a gray eagle with a gold border labeled "Poland". Flag of the Kingdom of Poland during the early nineteenth century used officially and ceremonially until circa 1900. Printed "Zira Cigarettes" at the bottom edge. One of a series of historical world flags. Given as collectible premiums by cigarette manufacturers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2854
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
50902
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pen wipe/ tobacco
Classification:
Date:
1912-1930
Medium:
Cloth
Dimensions:
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.
Description:
A beige cotton felt cloth pen wipe, divided into nine sections printed with flags. The center three sections have a 48 star American flag flanked by eagles with banners in their beaks on stars and stripes shields. Above are the flags of "Costa Rica", "Peru" and "Cuba"; below is the word "America" in a scrolled frame flanked by the flag of "Santo Domingo", presently the Dominican Republic, and "Hayti", presently "Haiti" with a red and blue border. Part of a series of Flags of the World given as a premium by cigar stores and manufacturers for blotting the ink from a nib pen.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2853
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
50900
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Drinking cups
Classification:
Date:
1900
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
5 x 4 x 1/2 in.
Description:
A cardboard box of disposable paper drinking cups. The box is white, printed in red and blue with a woman holding a cup marked "Safeguard Your Health" surrounded by the words "Columbian Individual Drinking Cup/ 25". On the sides partially readable "Public Drinking Cups Spread Disease. Health Authorities Everywhere[?] Recommend Sanitary Paper Cups". An applied paper label on the front reads Charles S. Pratt/ New And Old Books/ 161 6TH Ave., N.Y./ Any Book You Want".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3214
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
50899
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Box/ collar
Classification:
Date:
1866-1910
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
5 x 3 1/4 x 3 in.
Description:
This horseshoe shaped cardboard box held a removable collar. It is beige with blue borders and a gray weave pattern covering the top and sides. On the rounded side is a black paper label printed in gold with a jockey riding a galloping horse and the word "Parole/ 15".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3213
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
50898
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tray
Classification:
Date:
1891-1910
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/2 x 12 in. diameter
Description:
A sandy beige and sea green souvenir tray with an elaborate color lithograph showing seven scenes by the seaside with the portrait of a man in a brown suit and bow tie at the top and around the rim, "Souvenir Of / Young's Ocean Pier/ Atlantic City, N.J.". Clockwise from the top, a scene of people entering an amusement pier; a uniformed band in a concert hall labeled "Band"; across the center, a scene of women in bathing gowns and men full bathing suits near a bath house with a roller coaster in the background; a scene of people pulling fish from a huge net marked "Fish Haul"; a group of dancing little girls in tutus and toe shoes marked "Children's Carnival"; people standing by a roller coaster with a loop-the-loop labeled "Flip Flop"; and people standing in an aquarium room marked "Fish Tank".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3200
Gallery Label:
The world's first ocean amusement pier was built in Atlantic City in 1882, but it was Captain John L. Young's 1891 Ocean Pier which set the standards for all amusement piers to come. On his Ocean Pier, Captain Young installed rides and midway games, and an electric trolley system. The latter delivered patrons from the Boardwalk, two thousand feet out over the Atlantic, to fishing and pleasure steamers at the pier's end. In addition, Young offered band concerts and vaudeville shows.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
50897
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cigarette silk
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Cloth
Dimensions:
3 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.
Description:
A small natural beige silk cloth printed with a color image of a brightly colored bird with a blue back, rusty breast and mustache, and green head and wings.This bird is an English Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), a widely but thinly distributed resident of England, Wales and Ireland. One in a series portraying birds of the world. Printed "Zira Cigarettes" at the edge. Given as collectible premiums by cigarette manufacturers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3240
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
50891
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cigarette silk
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Cloth
Dimensions:
3 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.
Description:
A small pink silk cloth printed with a red monochrome portrait of a woman labeled "Louise Le Baron", in an lace off-the-shoulder dress. Printed "Turkey Red Cigarettes" at the bottom edge. One of a series of actresses and show girls. Given as collectible premiums by cigarette manufacturers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3239
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
50890
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Trade sign
Classification:
Date:
1900-1930
Medium:
Cement
Dimensions:
16 x 15 x 3 in.
Description:
Cast cement trade sign of a detailed relief profile of a Native American with a swept back feathered headdress; "Edison Cement" in banner below.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3212
Gallery Label:
The Edison Cement Company was incorporated on June 7, 1899 and was most noted for the dubious development of the single cast cement house. Edison held over forty-nine patents on cement processes, issued between 1900 and 1917. The company had a mill at Stewartsville, New Jersey, and sales offices in New York City, Boston and Philadelphia, as well as several southern states. Around a dozen cold, leaky, single cast cement houses created by Edison Cement still exist, mostly in New Jersey, as testimony to this company and its ill-conceived projects.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
50888
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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