Hardware/ household
Classification:
Date:
1910-1940
Medium:
Wood, cork, metal
Dimensions:
1/2 x 8 in. diameter
Description:
A dark red ink pen with a cork collar for holding the nib. The wood handle is stamped "American Pencil Co./ New York, U.S.A./ 1156".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2568
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
50182
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Hardware/ household
Classification:
Date:
1980-2000
Medium:
Plastic, metal
Dimensions:
3 x 1 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description:
A green plastic tab keyring with a metal ring printed in gold with three company symbols that read "AC", "GM" and "DelCo", referring to autoparts suppliers, and the words "Baldwin Auto Repair/ Atlantic Ave. & Verity Lane/ Baldwin, N.Y. 11510", with the telephone number.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2567
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
2000
eMuseum Object ID:
50181
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Hardware/ household
Classification:
Date:
1980-2000
Medium:
Plastic, metal
Dimensions:
3 x 1 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description:
A red plastic tab keyring with a metal ring printed in gold with three company symbols that read "AC", "GM" and "DelCo", referring to autoparts suppliers, and the words "Baldwin Auto Repair/ Atlantic Ave. & Verity Lane/ Baldwin, N.Y. 11510", with the telephone number.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2566
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
2000
eMuseum Object ID:
50180
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Hardware/ household
Classification:
Date:
1940-1960
Medium:
Plastic, glass
Dimensions:
3 3/4 x 8 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A flat plastic thermometer shaped like a grandfather clock with a staircase and banister behind printed at the bottom "Home Fuel Oil Co./ UNion 3-5000/ Union City, N.J./ Sales-Oil Burners-Service". In the center of the clock where the pendulum would be is a glass alcohol thermometer on a small gold metal plate with scales in Celsius and Farhenheit degrees. In the face of the clock instead of hands is a blue-gray fuzzy disk that indicates humidity surrounded by the words "Weather Prophet/ Rosy Pink-Rain; Blue-Fair and Dry; Bluish Pink-Change".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2565
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1960
eMuseum Object ID:
50179
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Hardware/ household
Classification:
Date:
1890
Medium:
Paper, wood, metal
Dimensions:
8 1/8 x 6 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A cardboard calendar printed with a brown border around pink and green flowers and a little blond girl in a pink dress on a blue and yellow background. It reads in brown "The Glenwood Calendar/ Compliments of / A.H. Halford/ Ludlow, Mass." The calendar is a scroll of paper around two wood dowels attached to the card with gold metal clips. The dowel is turned to advance the calendar scroll from month to month for the year 1890. In between each month an ad is printed: "Buy A Glenwood Range", or "Glenwood Heating Stoves".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2564
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
50178
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Trade sample
Classification:
Date:
1943-1950
Medium:
Metal, cloth
Dimensions:
3 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 5/8 in.
Description:
A sample of metal used to make bombers during World War II. A bright silver thick slab printed with a blue border and a black airplane and the words "Sample of 5/8 inch 75S-T6 Aluminum Alloy Wing Root Skin of the World's Fastest Bomber/ Skin tapers to 3/16 inch thickness at wing tip./ Boeing B-47 StratoJet". The B-47 StratoJet first appeared in 1944, but was most extensively utilized from 1947 to 1967, when production ended. The bottom is covered with felt.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2563
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
50177
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Trade Sign
Classification:
Date:
1992
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
16 x 8 3/8 x 1/8 in.
Description:
Reproduction chomolithographic tin sign; scene of a girl in a red floor-length coat with black fur trim carrying a basket of holly and brown paper wrappped packages standing in the snow in front of a house. It reads at the top in red "Merry Christmas", and at the bottom in black "Compliments of the Season/ Desperate Enterprises/ Wadsworth, O." Formerly F-44.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2213
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1992
eMuseum Object ID:
50176
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Trade Sign
Classification:
Date:
1880-1900
Medium:
Paper mache
Dimensions:
33 x 25 1/4 x 1 in.
Description:
Molded papier mache-type fiber sign carved with four columns with wreaths and banners wound around them, two classical statues, and reproductions of 8 award medals highlight with gold and bronze paint. It reads "Valentine & Company/ Manufacturers of / Coach and Car Varnishes.../ The Standard For Quality Varnishes", with a long description of the uses and features of the varnish. Formerly F-18.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2212
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
50175
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Trade Sign
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
37 1/2 x 25 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.
Description:
Chomolithographic tin sign advertising "True Fruit," s soda fountain product from the J. Hungerford Smith Company of Rochester, N.Y. The scene is of a table set with a white table cloth, a large ornate silver platter of fruit decorated with leaves and a statuette of a standing woman and a kneeling child draped with garlands of flowers in the center. The background is blue and gold. A gold painted tin molding frames the print and has white floral and leaf designs in shaded white and printed 'True Fruit'/ J. Hungerford Smith Co./ Rochester, N.Y.", now a division of Con-Agra Co. See 2002.1.2181 and 2002.1.2182 for parts from a similar item. Formerly F-20.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2211
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
50174
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Trade sign
Classification:
Date:
1890-1920
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
30 1/4 x 20 1/4 x 1 in.
Description:
A sign chromolithographed on tin with a faux wood molded tin frame with portrait of a continental army soldier in a blue and ivory colored uniform holding a musket and wearing a tricorn hat. It reads in blue with white highlights "Continental/ (Fire)/ Insurance Co./ Of New York/ Cash Capital Ten Million Dollars". Formerly F-19.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.2210
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
50173
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.













