Bar tray

Date: 
ca. 1930-1940
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
1 1/4 x 12 in. diameter
Description: 
Deep edged beer tray with red rim with navy blue band on the inner surface with beige lettering, "Columbia Brewery Co./ Columbia, PA." Bright green bottom with copper patina has portrait of the Statue of Liberty holding up a glass of beer instead of a torch, surrounded by the words in navy blue with beige borders and red, "Columbia/ Beer/ Ale-Porter".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3203
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1935
eMuseum Object ID: 
50818
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Bar Tray

Date: 
1940-1950
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
1 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. diameter
Description: 
A deep edged beer tray with a gold rim with black and red striped on the inner surface and a wood grain print in the bottom. At the top is a gold eagle on a shield and the words, in gold and red with white borders "Since 1862/ Eichler's Beer/ New York, N.Y."
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3202
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1950
eMuseum Object ID: 
50817
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Tray

Date: 
1908
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
3/4 x 9 3/4 in. diameter
Description: 
A tray commemorating William Howard Taft's run for the presidency in 1908. Lithographed in color around the rim are stars and stripes shields interspersed with portraits of every Republican Party (G.O.P.) candidate since its inception in 1856 with the date of their candidacy and the words "Grand Old Party/ 1856-1908/ Standard Bearers" : "Fremont 1856"; "Lincoln 1860-1864"; "Grant 1868-1872"; "Hayes 1876"; "Garfield 1880"; "Arthur 1881"; "Blaine 1884"; "Harrison 1888-1892"; "McKinley 1896"; "Roosevelt 1901-1904". In the center surrounded by laural leaves and flags is a drawing of the White House above portraits of Taft and James Sherman, his Vice-President, with the caption "1908/ For President/ William Howard Taft/ For Vice President/ James Schoolcraft Sherman".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3201
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1908
eMuseum Object ID: 
50816
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Tray

Date: 
1904
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
1/2 x 9 in. diameter
Description: 
A laquered silver plated commemorative tray embossed in the center "Herald Square Theatre 200th Performance Tuesday May 10th 1904/ Charles Frohman and George Edwardes/ Presentation of/ The Farcical Comedy with Music/ The Girls From Kays/ Sam Bernard/ Hattie Williams- Harry Davenport/ Kathryn Hutchinson- Ernest Lambart/ Grace Dudley- George Honey/ May Nash- Grant Stewart". The rim is deeply embossed with scrolls and leafy branches with berries.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3199
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1904
eMuseum Object ID: 
50815
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Bar tray

Date: 
1898-1903
Medium: 
Lithographed tin
Dimensions: 
16 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 3/4 in.
Description: 
An oval tin lithographed bar tray with a border of white stars on a blue background with flags, banners, an eagle and crossed swords at the top, bottom and sides, around a central image of Theodore Roosevelt in his khaki 'Rough Riders' uniform riding a horse through a landscape with a palm tree meant to represent Cuba. He holds his sword over his head and wears the U.S.V. insignia of the U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment known as the 'Rough Riders' ". It reads in white at the bottom "Teddy Roosevelt".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3197
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1903
eMuseum Object ID: 
50809
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Hunt's Lettering & Drawing Pens

Date: 
1900-1910
Medium: 
Metal, paper, wood ,glass
Dimensions: 
13 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 3/4 in.
Description: 
A framed store display card printed with a light green patterned background with a dark green border and mounted with 42 different samples of pen nibs. It reads in black "Hunt's/ Lettering & Drawing/ Pens", and above a section with large nibs with unusually shaped ends "Speedball Drawing & Lettering Pens". Below that is a section with specialized pen nibs that is marked "Two Line and Round Writing Pens in Eleven Widths of Point for Draughtsmen, Architects and Sign Writers". At the bottom, "C. Howard Hunt Pen Co./ Main Office & Works/ Camden, N.J. Made in U.S.A."
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3196
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1910
eMuseum Object ID: 
50808
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Store display

Date: 
patented 1906
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
3 1/4 x 16 in. diameter
Description: 
Circular tin "commodity cabinet" store display for sewing needles; printed in black and red " 'Boye' Patented/ Needle and Shuttle Case/ Containing Only/ The High Grade/ Boye Brand/ Needles & Shuttles/ Needles and Shuttles For Your Machine". A list of machine manufacturers, model and needles sizes and gauges encircle the front with drawings of needles and shuttles and a size chart. A heavy silver colored metal arrow is turned to a particular sewing machine manufacturer, model and gauge, which turns an inner carousel to the correct needle case that can be removed through a sliding hatch at the top. With the hatch opened, the inner carousel locks at the desired needle type.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3195
Gallery Label: 

The Boye Needle Company's "commodity cabinet" was patented by James H. Boye in 1906. The container was used in stores to dispense sewing machine needles and other related merchandise such as shuttles and bobbins.

Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1906
eMuseum Object ID: 
50807
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Photographic equipment

Date: 
1890-1920
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
4 3/4 x 3 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.
Description: 
A brown cardboard box with faintly darker horizontal stripes and a pale blue label printed in black and violet with the words "Platen/ Plaques/ Gevaert/ Super/ Sensima/ Anti-Halo/ 700 H & D/ 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 / 24198A/ Platten/ Plates".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3082
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
50806
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Photographic equipment

Date: 
1890-1920
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
4 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.
Description: 
A brown cardboard box with a white label with dark red trim printed in black with a central image of a factory building below a hammer and the words "Photographic Dry Plates./ Keep In A Dry Place/ Open In Dark Room Only/ Manufactured by/ Hammer Dry Plate Company,/ St. Louis, MO.". A dark blue label on the side reads in white "Extra Fast/ Hammer Plates/ Record 351/ 1 Dozen/ 3 1/4 x 4 1/4".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3081
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
50805
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Photographic equipment

Date: 
1890-1920
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
8 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 1 1/8 in.
Description: 
A brown cardboard box with a deep yellow label printed in black "Caution: Open in the Dark Room by RED LIGHT only!/ Monroe's/ Chautaqua/ Gelatine Dry Plate./ Manufactured only by the/ Monroe Dry Plate Works,/ Jamestown, N.Y./ Wm. T. Gregg, / Manufacturer of and Dealer/ Photographic Outfits and Supplies,/ 25 John St., New York." A label on the side reads "1 Dozen 5 x 8/ Sens. 40/ Chautaqua/ Emulsion. 1452".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3080
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
50804
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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