Beer advertising sign

Date: 
1920-1940
Medium: 
Metal, plastic, paper
Dimensions: 
19 x 12 3/8 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
A dark green beer advertising sign with a central image of nine policemen in old fashioned navy blue uniforms with tall rounded hats with a peaked brims sitting on a long bench drinking out of mugs marked "Carling's" with the caption "The Nine Pints Of The Law". Above the police "Carling's" and below "Carling's Ale" with a red seal.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3630
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1940
eMuseum Object ID: 
52018
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sign/ liquor

Date: 
1950-1970
Medium: 
Plastic, metal
Dimensions: 
13 x 5 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
A plastic and metal liquor advertising sign with an easel back for standing as a display. The front is black with a gold border and in red and gold "Carstairs/ Rye Whiskey/ A Quality Whiskey Since 1788".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3629
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1970
eMuseum Object ID: 
52017
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sign/ liquor

Date: 
1980-1990
Medium: 
Plastic
Dimensions: 
9 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
A plastic beer advertising sign with full color cut-out shapes printed with two beer bottles and two drinking horns marked "Tuborg Beer" and "Tuborg Dark" at the top above the words embossed in gold in the dark brown sign "Take Tuborg By The Horns/ Tuborg Beer/ Denmark".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3628
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1990
eMuseum Object ID: 
52016
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sign/ liquor

Date: 
1950-1960
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
14 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A cardboard advertising sign with a full color portrait of woman in a red 1950's style dress holding a huge fork and salt shaker standing by a white brick barbeque pit with a rotisseried chicken below the legend in red and white "Rheingold Extra Dry/ Lager Beer".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3627
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
52015
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sign/ liquor

Date: 
1940-1960
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
14 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A cardboard advertising sign with a full color portrait of a white and black mottled hunting retriever with a bottle of Ballantine Ale in its mouth with the words "Ballantine Ale" at the top, and "Best In The Field", at the bottom.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3626
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
52014
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sign/ liquor

Date: 
1940-1960
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
17 x 13 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
A cardboard advertising sign with a full color scene of a rural snowy landscape with a man hauling a Christmas tree toward a large horse drawn sleigh full of waving people with a yellow house in the background. In red and white at the top "R & H Light Beer", and at the bottom "Merry Christmas".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3625
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
52013
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sign/ liquor

Date: 
1940-1960
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
20 3/4 x 11 1/2 x 1/4 in.
Description: 
A yellow cardboard advertising diorama that has a multi-layer full monochrome brown with red higlighted scene of a blacksmith working at a forge while another puts a shoe on the front foot of a horse. It reads at on the top and bottom in black and red "Canada's Finest- Since 1811/ Imported Black Horse Ale". This sign can be unfolded and assembled so as to produce a 3-D effect from the several layers of printed cardboard forming the sign.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3624
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
52012
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Elevated train sign

Date: 
1870-1955
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
20 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A black metal street sign with embossed lettering highlighted in white from the New York Third Avenue Elevated Train line that reads "Gun Hill Road". One of nine from the system. The first elevated trains appeared in the 1870s in Manhattan. They ran over the streets of Second, Third, Sixth, and Ninth Avenues and had structures made of cast iron. Early service on the el was provided by cable car but constant breakdowns led to the shutdown of the lines. The el lines reopened in 1871 with steam engines pulling the former cable cars in Manhattan and later the wooden coaches were converted for electric operation. Bronx el service was intoduced in the mid 1880s. The Manhattan system was leased to the IRT in 1903 for 999 years but most els were taken down in the 1940s while the 3rd Avenue El's Manahttan system survived until 1955 and the Bronx portion until 1973.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3523
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1955
eMuseum Object ID: 
52011
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Elevated train sign

Date: 
1870-1955
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
20 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description: 
A black metal street sign with embossed lettering highlighted in white from the New York Third Avenue Elevated Train line that reads "3d. Ave. Local". One of nine from the system.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3522
Gallery Label: 
The first elevated trains appeared in the 1870s in Manhattan. They ran over the streets of Second, Third, Sixth, and Ninth Avenues and had structures made of cast iron. Early service on the el was provided by cable car but constant breakdowns led to the shutdown of the lines. The el lines reopened in 1871 with steam engines pulling the former cable cars in Manhattan and later the wooden coaches were converted for electric operation. Bronx el service was intoduced in the mid 1880s.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1955
eMuseum Object ID: 
52010
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Tin

Date: 
1920-1950
Medium: 
Ceramic
Dimensions: 
8 1/2 x 9 1/4x 6 in.
Description: 
A white ceramic pitcher with a ruffled top edge and a purple and gold twisted handle. One side has an oval gold frame around a pink painted store front in a wood sided building with a large display window and signs the read "E.A. Becker/ 1015 The China Shop 1013" and "Porzelan Handelung". The reverse has a monogram crest of the interlaced letters "E. A. B."
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3521
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1950
eMuseum Object ID: 
52009
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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