Shopping bag

Date: 
1980-2000
Medium: 
Plastic
Dimensions: 
15 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Description: 
This white plastic bag is printed on both sides in black with cartoon of a globe surrounded by art supplies such as a palette and tubes of paint and marked with flags at the towns where the stores are located. It reads in red "Pearl/ The World's Largest Art, Craft & Graphic Discount Centers", with a list of locations.
Credit Line: 
The Bella C. Landauer Collection of Business and Advertising Ephemera
Object Number: 
2002.1.1823
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
2000
eMuseum Object ID: 
49714
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Shopping bag

Date: 
1980-2000
Medium: 
Plastic
Dimensions: 
17 x 13 1/2 in.
Description: 
This white plastic bag has a black snap-close plastic handle and is printed on both sides with a stylized sunburst and several stylized characters, in black, and reads "peter max/ www.petermax.com".
Credit Line: 
The Bella C. Landauer Collection of Business and Advertising Ephemera
Object Number: 
2002.1.1822
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
2000
eMuseum Object ID: 
49713
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Shopping bag

Date: 
1980-2000
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
15 1/4 x 13 in.
Description: 
This ivory colored paper shopping bag has a twisted fiber handle and is printed on both sides with an elaborate blue frame around a black drawing of a store front with awnings, below the words "Scribners/ New York & Williamsburg".
Credit Line: 
The Bella C. Landauer Collection of Business and Advertising Ephemera
Object Number: 
2002.1.1821
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
2000
eMuseum Object ID: 
49712
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Hardware Sign

Date: 
1900-1930
Medium: 
Metal, paper
Dimensions: 
13 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
This black tin sign has a color diagram of the connections between a coal stove, a water boiler marked Brown & Bro's Seamless Copper Boiler", and a hot water receptacle marked "Vulcan". The front reads in red "Vulcan/ Gas Water Heater/ Hot Water Almost Instantly." The reverse has a paper label that reads "W.M. Crane Co./ Gas Appliance Manufacturers/ 1131-1133 Broadway, New York".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1634
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
49711
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Hardware Sign

Date: 
c. 1900
Medium: 
Glass, paper, paint
Dimensions: 
7 x 5 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
This sign is a glass pane with a paper card glued to the back and painted over in gold. The image is of a farmer in a red shirt and blue hat guiding a plow behind a pair of horses, with a cottage in the background. It reads in black "William C. Renz,/ Hardware and Tools/ 1547 Broadway, B'klyn, N.Y., Tel. 3506 Bushwick".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1633
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
49710
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Hardware Samples

Date: 
1990-2000
Medium: 
Plastic, paper, metal
Dimensions: 
6 x 5 x 3 1/4 in.
Description: 
This dark blue rectangular box is printed on the lid and sides in gold and white "Avonite/ Color Reference". The lid opens on a hinge and inside the lid is a list of colors with number codes. The box is full of faux marble samples in a variety of solid and speckled colors including green, red with gray veins and gray with white speckles.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1632
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
2000
eMuseum Object ID: 
49709
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Paint Samples

Date: 
1950-1970
Medium: 
Plastic, paper, metal
Dimensions: 
4 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
This rectangular sample book has a gray paper cover that is printed in dark red "DuPont/ Flat Wall Paint/ Semi-Gloss Enamel", inside are various colored samples of paint on paper cards. See also 2002.1.1629, 1630
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1631
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1970
eMuseum Object ID: 
49708
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Paint Samples

Date: 
1950-1970
Medium: 
Plastic, paper, metal
Dimensions: 
4 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
This rectangular sample book has a gray paper cover that is printed in dark red "DuPont/ Flat Wall Paint/ Semi-Gloss Enamel", inside are various colored samples of paint on paper cards.See also 2002.1.1629, 1631
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1630
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1970
eMuseum Object ID: 
49707
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Paint Samples

Date: 
1950-1970
Medium: 
Plastic, paper, metal
Dimensions: 
4 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
This rectangular sample book has a gray paper cover that is printed in dark red "DuPont/ Interior Gloss Enamel", inside are various colored samples of paint on paper cards.See also 2002.1.1630, 1631
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1629
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1970
eMuseum Object ID: 
49706
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Plastic samples

Date: 
1950-1970
Medium: 
Plastic, paper, metal
Dimensions: 
3 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 1/2 in.
Description: 
This rectangular sample book has a paper cover with crest of a shield with two lions and a banner and reads in red "Imperialyte/ Imperial Chemical & Plastics Corp./ Cranston, R.I. Williams 9200/ New York Showroom/ 8 W. 40th St. LOngacre 3-7270". The back cover has a drawing of a factory marked "General Offices and Plant". Inside are samples of plastic sheets in various colors.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.1628
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1970
eMuseum Object ID: 
49705
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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