Ashtray

Date: 
1940
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
4 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/4 in.
Description: 
This triangular black metal ashtray has a plastic eight ball on one side and on the others the words "Street Address", "City, State" and "Your Firm Name Here". A salesman's sample for a company making souvenir ashtrays marked "1940 Sample M-35B".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.365
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1940
eMuseum Object ID: 
48012
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Tray

Date: 
1910-1930
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
1/8 x 4 in. diameter
Description: 
This circular black metal tray has a drawing of a little girl in a bonnet holding flowers sitting on a large bar of soap with an orange background and the inscription "Have you a little 'Fairy' in your home?". On the bottom "Sense-Cents-Scents/ Peope with Common Sense pay but five/ common Cents for a soap with no common/ Scents-thats Fairy Soap. Fairy Soap (the floating oval cake) is white and pure with/ no scents or dyes to disguise adulterations; it costs but five cents./ Avoid dyed soaps!"
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.366
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
48011
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Souvenir Tray

Date: 
1907
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
Diamond : 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
This small diamond shaped metal tray is engraved with a buffalo butting a man in foreign clothes in the center with a portrait marked "Col. W. Cody", and the inscription "Mecca Temple At/ Buffalo Bills Wild West/ May 3rd 1907/ 'Over The Hot Sands'.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.364
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1907
eMuseum Object ID: 
48010
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine

Date: 
1906-1930
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
6 x 3 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
This manila envelope holds herbs and plant material. It is printed in black, in part, "Here is Relief from Kidney Complaints/ Mother Gray's Aromatic-Leaf/ Cleanses the system. Purifies the blood.../ Proprietor, Le Roy, N.Y.". On the front and back are instructions for use and more description of the effects.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.783
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1930
eMuseum Object ID: 
48009
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine

Date: 
1930-1960
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
3 x 1 1/2 x 1/2 in.
Description: 
This rectangular metal box holds band-aids. It is yellow with blue and red printing that reads "Suntan/ The New Speed Bandage/ Waterproof/ Band-Aid/ 10 Cents/ Johnson & Johnson".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.781
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
48008
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine

Date: 
1940-1970
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
1/2 x 1 3/4 in. diameter
Description: 
This metal lid came from a tin or bottle of band-aids. It reads in red and yellow on white "Red Cross/ 16/ 10 cent/ Band-Aid."
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.780
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1970
eMuseum Object ID: 
48007
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine

Date: 
1900-1920
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
2 3/4 x 1 1/2 x 1 in. oval
Description: 
This tiny oval wooden box is still sealed in white paper with red and blue printed on the lid with the words "Sherman's/ Worm Lozenges/ New York", with instructions for use in the center and a signature on the side.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.779
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
48006
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine

Date: 
1900-1920
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
2 3/4 x 1 1/2 x 1 in. oval
Description: 
This tiny oval wooden box is still sealed in white paper with red and blue printed with the words "Sherman's/ Worm Lozenges/ New York", with a signature on the side.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.778
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
48005
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine

Date: 
1900-1920
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
2 x 1 x 3/4 in. oval
Description: 
This tiny oval wooden box is still sealed in yellow paper that is printed in black with the words "Texan Universal Pills/ Good at all times./ Price 4 Bits" with a central drawing of a star. The sides read "Vegetable Pills/ Prepared by Jas. B. Gilamn" and "Particularly adapted to/ the climate of Texas."
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.777
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
48004
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine

Date: 
1913-1920
Medium: 
Wood, paper
Dimensions: 
2 x 1 x 3/4 in. oval
Description: 
This tiny oval wooden box is still sealed in paper that is printed in red with the words "Radway's Regulators/ 30 Pills/ Dose For Adults 2 Pills RRR Dose For Children 1 Pill or Less/ Radway & Co./ New York", banners on the side list ailments such as "Dyspepsia" and "Biliousness" and the bottom advertises "Price 25 Cents/ RRR No. 3/ Radway's Ready Relief &/ Sarsparillian Resolvent". Latest date on top label is 1913.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.776
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
48003
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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