Sign
Classification:
Date:
1890-1910
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
9 1/8 x 6 1/2 x 1/8 in.
Description:
A curved dark beige cardboard sign, possibly cut from a hat box, with red and black lettering that reads "From G.W. White's/ Fashionable/ Hat & Cap Warehouse/ 230 Greenwich Street, New-York/ Manufacturer of Beaver, Cassimere [sic], Moleskin and Silk Hats; Fur, Cloth and Velvet Caps./ He Has On Hand All Kinds Of Muff And Fur Trimmings".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3700
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
51760
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sign
Classification:
Date:
1890-1940
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
8 x 4 in.
Description:
A metal sign pierced on both ends for mounting on a wall painted black with embossed gold lettering that reads "City Ins. Co./ Hartford".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3699
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1940
eMuseum Object ID:
51759
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1909
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
3/4 x 9 3/8 in. diameter
Description:
A cream colored ceramic calendar plate for the year 1909 with a gold scalloped rim around the months in a circle each with a different colored floral, holly, leafy or fruit decorated border encircling a central print of a brick and wood bridge over a snowy stream with a house or mill in the background and a man waiting for another in a flat bottomed pirogue on the stream. Near the bottom in gold "Chas. H. Hunter & Co./ Groceries & Provisions/ 312 & 314 Salem Street/ Medford, Mass."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3586
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1909
eMuseum Object ID:
51758
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1909
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
3/4 x 9 3/4 in. diameter
Description:
A cream colored ceramic calendar plate for the year 1909 with a gold scalloped rim around an elaborate green border with floral, leafy and flourish motifs and the months around a central print of a woman's face swathed in diaphanous white gauzy material.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3585
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1909
eMuseum Object ID:
51757
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plate
Classification:
Date:
1911
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
3/4 x 9 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
A cream colored ceramic calendar plate for the year 1911 with a gold scalloped rim around a central print of a woman wearing a large cranberry red plumed hat encircled by cherubs or putti with clouds and the months.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3584
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1911
eMuseum Object ID:
51756
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Store display
Classification:
Date:
1950-1960
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
10 5/8 x 10 1/4 x 1/8 in.
Description:
A folded flat cardboard carrying case for a six-pack of Pepsi Cola in bottles. The case is printed blue with white stripes and the word "Drink" over a central white oval frame that reads in red "Pepsi-Cola".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3468
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1960
eMuseum Object ID:
51743
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Store display
Classification:
Date:
1950-1960
Medium:
Plastic
Dimensions:
9 1/2 x 4 x 6 3/8 in.
Description:
A plastic store display device that may have held advertising brochures, sales literature, playing cards or note pads. It is red plastic with two storage sections and on the front a white bordered frame the embossed in white "Schaefer" over a gold hand holding a glass of foamy beer above the pedestal embossed "Our Hand Has Never Lost Its Skill".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3467
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1960
eMuseum Object ID:
51742
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tin
Classification:
Date:
1940-1960
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
8 x 5 x 2 in.
Description:
A candy tin with a hinged lid printed with an image of a large passenger ocean liner with three red and black smoke stacks marked "The Queen Mary". The inside of the lid is pale yellow with red printing in an oval frame that reads "Benson's/ English Toffee Favourites/ A Delicious Assortment", flanked on the left by "Distributors:/ Jaret & Diamond/ 17, Avenue of the Americas/ New York 13, N.Y., U.S.A.", and on the right "Distributors: Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Ltd./ 10/ 18 McCaul Street/ Toronto Canada".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3471
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1960
eMuseum Object ID:
51741
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Jug
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Ceramic
Dimensions:
11 x 7 1/2 in. diameter
Description:
A cream colored jug with a dark brown top section printed on the front in glazed blue "Joseph Disesa/ Wholesale Dealer in/ Wine & Liquors/ Family Trade A Specialty/ 55 Railroad Ave.,/ South Norwalk, Conn."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3454
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
51740
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bowl
Classification:
Date:
1970
Medium:
Glass, gold
Dimensions:
3 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. diameter
Description:
A smokey gray transparent glass commemorative bowl, with a gold inside band just below the rim the reads "Wool Associates- 100th Anniversary Of The New York Cotton Exchange- Citrus Associates/ 1870-1970". The founding of the New York Cotton Exchange in 1870 marked the end of the factorage system for marketing America's most important 19th-century domestic crop and the beginning of today's futures trading system for buying and selling all commodities.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number:
2002.1.3470
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1970
eMuseum Object ID:
51739
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.













