Utensil
Classification:
Date:
1940-1960
Medium:
Wood, paper
Dimensions:
8 1/4 x 7/8 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A pair of wood chopsticks in a white paper sleeve printed with Asian characters and "Miyako Restaurant/ 20 West 56th St., N.Y. City/ Phone Columbus 5-3177".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4549
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1960
eMuseum Object ID:
53262
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Premium/ restaurant
Classification:
Date:
1991
Medium:
Metal, wood, plastic
Dimensions:
1 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. diameter
Description:
A metal and plastic toy spinning top with a red wood axle. It is printed with a blue and white checkerboard patterned border around a checked box printed in red "Checkers/ 5ct.", and this poem "Happy little spinning top,/ Round the table creeping,/ Spin away until you drop/ Then I'll know you're/ sleeping". Patented 1991. Probably from the Checkers Bar and Grills.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4548
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1991
eMuseum Object ID:
53261
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Swizzle stick
Classification:
Date:
1950-1990
Medium:
Plastic
Dimensions:
6 1/4 x 7/8 x 1/4 in.
Description:
This green plastic swizzle stick has a knob on one end as a handle and a spoon on the other for stirring a cocktail. The shaft reads "Longchamps".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4547
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1990
eMuseum Object ID:
53260
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pinback button
Classification:
Date:
1998
Medium:
Plastic, metal, paper
Dimensions:
2 1/8 x 2 1/8 x 1/4 in.
Description:
A square red pinback button printed with a central image of soldiers in body armor above the words "Small Soldiers", a 1998 animated film about action figure toys that come to life.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4796
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1998
eMuseum Object ID:
53248
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Coin/ pendant
Classification:
Date:
1827-1850
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/2 in. diameter
Description:
A dull silver colored metal coin or pendant embossed on one side with a very raised relief portrait of a man encircled by the name "Robert Raikes". On the reverse "Sunday School Of/ St. Thomas Church/ New York/Instituted. A.D. 1827". Robert Raikes (1735-1811) was a British newspaper editor traditionally credited as pioneering Sunday Schools in the 1780s although teaching Bible reading and basic skills on a Sunday was an established activity in a number of eighteenth century Puritan and evangelical congregations. Raikes started his first school for the children of chimney sweeps in Sooty Alley, Gloucester (opposite the city prison) in 1780. Convinced "vice could be better prevented than cured," after visiting in the slum section of the city, he was distressed with the corruption of children. Heconceived of a school to be taught on the best available time - Sunday. They decided to use the available manpower - laymen. The curriculum would be the Bible and they aimed at reaching the children of the street, not just the children of church members.
Pierced at the top for hanging.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4795
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
53247
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Coin/ pendant
Classification:
Date:
1890
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 3/8 in. diameter
Description:
A dull silver colored metal coin or pendant embossed on one side with a portrait of a Catholic bishop encircled by "Golden Jubilee/ 1840-1890/ Right Rev. John Loughlin/ Bishop Of Brooklyn", and on the reverse, "Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Ordination To The Priesthood Of Bishop Loughlin/ Oct. 17-20/ 1890". Pierced at the top for hanging.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4794
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
53246
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Coin/ pendant
Classification:
Date:
1923
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A gold colored metal coin or pendant embossed on one side with a detailed image of a church, and on the reverse, "Souvenir Of The New Mother/ A.M.E./ Zoin Church/ New York 1796-1923". With a loop at the top for hanging.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4793
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1923
eMuseum Object ID:
53245
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Souvenir token
Classification:
Date:
1920-1950
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A bright gold colored metal coin or token embossed on one side with a detailed image of a cathedral with two towering spires, and on the reverse, an eagle below a Bishops hat over a banner the reads "Souvenir Of Pilgrimage" encircled by "The Cathedral Of St. John The Divine/ New York".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4792
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
53244
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Souvenir token
Classification:
Date:
1920-1950
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A bright gold colored metal coin or token embossed on one side with a detailed image of a cathedral with two towering spires, and on the reverse, an eagle below a Bishops hat over a banner the reads "Souvenir Of Pilgrimage" encircled by "The Cathedral Of St. John The Divine/ New York".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4791
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
53243
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Advertising token
Classification:
Date:
1900-1930
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
1/8 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A dark copper colored coin or token embossed on one side with a heart-shaped wreath around a young child encircled by the words "Hebrew Kindergarten Infants Home/ 35 & 37 Montgomery St., N.Y.C./Central and Plainview Aves., Far Rockaway" On the reverse, another heart-shaped wreath around the words "Have A Heart/ Help The Orphans/ And God Will Help You/ Good Luck Coin".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.4790
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1930
eMuseum Object ID:
53242
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.


















