Grocery and cigar store sign
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Wood, iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 36 x 4 in. ( 61 x 91.4 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Wooden grocery and cigar store sign composed of shaped flat eagle with wings spread perched on large cylindrical wooden cigar; eagle holds red, white, and blue inscribed banner in beak; iron eyelets for hanging and iron reinforced sides on eagle's legs.
Object Number:
INV.15001
Marks:
painted: in white on banner: "CR MILLHOUSE/ GROCERY/ CANDY/ AND/ CIGARS TOBACCO"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27650
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
form for lobster pot
Classification:
Date:
1825-1900
Medium:
Wood, leather, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/2 x 9 in. ( 77.5 x 22.9 cm )
Description:
Wooden mold for eel trap; tapering cylindrical form with solid oak upper section and hollow lower portion with exterior formed by slats; narrow cylindrical end for sitting onto bench; leather strips and metal belt around upper end.
Credit Line:
Gift of Professor Gustave Noback
Object Number:
1944.355d
Provenance:
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27619
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
form for lobster pot
Classification:
Date:
1825-1900
Medium:
Wood, leather, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 8 in. ( 71.1 x 20.3 cm )
Description:
Wooden mold for eel trap; tapering cylindrical form with solid oak upper section and hollow lower portion with exterior formed by slats; narrow cylindrical end for sitting onto bench; leather strips and belt around upper end.
Credit Line:
Gift of Professor Gustave Noback
Object Number:
1944.355c
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27618
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sausage Grinder
Classification:
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Oak, iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 42 1/4 x 26 x 29 in. ( 107.3 x 66 x 73.7 cm )
Description:
zOak meat grinder with iron funnel, blades, and crank; grinding mechanism composed of hinged box with sheet metal funnel in top and separate cylinder and crank fitted inside; metal blades inside box and on cylinder mesh to grind meat; box mounted on platform with four long, splayed legs.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number:
1920.109
Provenance:
The George W. Nash Collection of Ulster County, New York Household Artifacts
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
27615
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tavern sign
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
c. 1800
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 1/2 x 15 1/4 x 2 in. ( 128.3 x 38.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Rectangular wooden sign painted with polychrome image of uniformed man from waist up in both sides; soldier holds banner with inscription; inscription also painted below banner; molded frame.
Credit Line:
Purchased from Elie Nadelman
Object Number:
1937.463
Marks:
painted: on banner: "British at New or[leans?]"
painted: below banner: "_ATA_"
Gallery Label:
This tavern sign, supposedly depicting Andrew Jackson, may have first been painted about 1815. The sign has been altered and overpainted over time.
Provenance:
The Folk Art Collection of Elie Nadelman
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
27535
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cobbler's bench
Classification:
Date:
1825-1860
Medium:
Pine, leather
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 1/4 x 48 5/8 x 24 in. ( 71.8 x 123.5 x 61 cm )
Description:
Black painted pine cobbler's bench with leather upholstered seat with molded back on proper left side; drawer below seat; flat work surface with two small rectangular partitions at right above shallow drawer, with deep drawer below; deep, narrow drawer on end; turned legs; leather shoe parts, nails, and approximately forty cobbler's tools in drawers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number:
1930.29
Gallery Label:
Good practice of any trade requires a suitable workspace and access to tools. This mid-nineteenth cobbler’s bench has both. This bench provided the cobbler with a space-saving platform to make and repair shoes. In addition, once finished, the cobbler could seat clients at the bench to assess the accuracy of their work and make final adjustments. Attributed to North Haven, Connecticut, this bench came to the New York Historical Society in 1930 as a gift from Samuel V. Hoffman. Although not on display, the bench’s multiple drawers and till box still contained over forty tools and a small stash of leather shoe parts that were likely saved for future commissions that never came.
Provenance:
Thorp's Antique Shoppe, Plainfield, NJ; to Samuel V. Hoffman for the New-York Historical Society.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
27223
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cobbler's bench and contents
Classification:
Date:
1750-1850
Medium:
Iron, wood
Description:
Oak and pine cobbler's bench; round, padded, leather-upholstered seat at proper right; flat work surface with partitions for tools and materials on left; double drawer below work surface pulls out as one piece, lower drawer also pulls out independently; contents of drawers includes three shoe forms and a boot scraper.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund B. Child
Object Number:
1121a-e
Gallery Label:
Tags found tied to drawer contents read "EB/ CHILDS"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
27211
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tool chest with tools
Classification:
Date:
chest ca. 1790; tools ca. 1790-1850
Medium:
Outer case of painted pine; inner till of mahogany with ivory and brass.
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 x 38 x 23 in. ( 121.9 x 96.5 x 58.4 cm )
Description:
Rectangular mahogany and pine tool chest with approximately 430 tools including planes, chisels and blades, saws, files, and compasses; plain lid gouged by compass with concentric circles; plain molding around base; wrought-iron bail handles on sides; mahogany panel with slots in sides for bladed tools affixed to inside of lid; bank of sixteen ivory-handled drawers slides forward on runners to reveal deep compartment housing planes; top panel of drawer bank hinged above flat compartment; wood slots and metal hooks on side wall for tools.
Credit Line:
Loaned by the families of Henry Pinkney Phyfe and Churchill B. Phyfe
Object Number:
L.1927.1
Gallery Label:
This chest was made by Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), one of New York's most renowned cabinetmakers, to house his own cabinetmaking tools. The tool chest contains approximately 300 woodworking tools used for carving, veneering, and inlaying furniture, including more than sixty planes and a variety of files, chisels, gouges, templates, and squares. The chest's current configuration, including the many rehandled tools, may have been undertaken by Phyfe after his retirement in 1847. The chest descended in Phyfe's family to his great-grandsons, Henry Pinkney Phyfe and Churchill Bell Phyfe, who deposited it with the New-York Historical Society in 1927.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
27128
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Boot scraper
Classification:
Date:
1750-1850
Medium:
Iron, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 6 5/8 x 2 3/4 in. ( 14 x 16.8 x 7 cm )
Description:
Cast iron boot scraper with molded scrolls mounted on wood block with screws.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund B. Child
Object Number:
1121e
Gallery Label:
Tag found tied to object reads "EB/ CHILDS"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
27084
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Shoe form
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/4 x 11 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. ( 9.5 x 29.2 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Carved wooden shoe form for right foot of adult-size shoe.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund B. Child
Object Number:
1121c
Marks:
impressed in top: "H.R.W.N./ &/ SON/ BURLINGTON/ VT./ 9 1/2"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27042
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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