Transportation token

Date: 
1930-1960
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
5/8 x 1/8 in. diameter
Description: 
A silver colored metal token pierced in the center to form a letter "W" and embossed on both sides with a spiraling decoration. On one side "Wash. Ry. & E. Co./ Cap. Trac. Co.", and on the reverse "One Fare In The Dist. Of Col./ 2". This transit token was from Washington D.C.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3163
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
51449
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Transportation token

Date: 
1930-1960
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
5/8 x 1/8 in. diameter
Description: 
A silver colored metal token pierced in the center to form a letter "W" and embossed on both sides with a spiraling decoration. On one side "Capital Transit Co.", and on the reverse "One Fare In The Dist. of Col./ 3 ". This transit token was from Washington D.C.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3162
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
51448
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Transportation token

Date: 
1930-1960
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
5/8 x 1/8 in. diameter
Description: 
A dark silver colored metal token pierced in the center to form a letter "W" and embossed on both sides with a spiraling decoration. On one side "Capital Transit Co.", and on the reverse "One Fare In The Dist. of Col./ 3". This transit token was from Washington D.C.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3161
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
51447
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Transportation token

Date: 
1930-1960
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
1 3/8 x 1/8 in. diameter
Description: 
A copper colored metal token pierced through the center and embossed on both sides with a spiraling decoration and on one side "Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation/ Half Fare Token". On the reverse, "Issued In Exchange For Three Cents".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3159
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1960
eMuseum Object ID: 
51436
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Photographic equipment

Date: 
1880-1920
Medium: 
Paper
Dimensions: 
5 3/8 x 4 1/4 x 1 1/8 in.
Description: 
A brown cardboard box with yellow paper seams and a bright blue label with dark blue trim that reads in black "Cramer's/ Photo Dry Plates./ Directions Inside/ Manufactured by/ G. Cramer Dry Plate Co., St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A./ New York Depot, 17 West 28th Street./ Keep in a Dry, Dimly Lighted Place./ Open in Dark Room Only." On the edge a black label with a white crown reads in white "One Dozen 4 X 5 Cramer Crown Emulsion".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3059
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1920
eMuseum Object ID: 
51435
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Thimble

Date: 
1900-1940
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
3/4 x 5/8 in. diameter
Description: 
An aluminum sewing thimble with a rolled edge. Embossed "Pierce Pennant/ Gasoline and Motor Oil", with a diamond on a green painted background. One of nine miscellaneous thimbles, 2002.1.3050 through 2002.1.3058. See also file 2002.1.2978 for the 72 thimble display case and files for all individual thimbles- 2002.1.2979 through 2002.1.3058.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3058
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1940
eMuseum Object ID: 
51420
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Tobacco

Date: 
1970-2000
Medium: 
Plastic
Dimensions: 
6 5/8 x 3 1/4 x 3/4 in.
Description: 
A very dark green plastic cigar case with a leather-grained textured finish printed on the front in silver with a company symbol incorporating a male and female profile above tobacco leaves encircled by the words "Antonio Y Cleopatra". The front reads in gold and silver "A & C/ Grenadiers/ Six Cigars".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.2925
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
2000
eMuseum Object ID: 
51396
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Ribbon

Date: 
1890-1925
Medium: 
Silk
Dimensions: 
5 x 3 in.
Description: 
A woven silk made to resemble the American flag with red and white stripes and a blue field but with only 25 white stars arranged in a six pointed star surrounded by the words "Knickerbocker/ Clay Club".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3279
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1925
eMuseum Object ID: 
51395
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Bell

Date: 
1915
Medium: 
Glass, metal
Dimensions: 
5 x 3 1/4 in. diameter
Description: 
A clear glass bell with a spirally turned handle and a metal clapper suspended by a central chain. Applied to the waist of the bell on one side in gold "The New York/ Mozart Society/ White and Gold Breakfast/ May 1st 1915".
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3278
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1915
eMuseum Object ID: 
51394
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Lamp

Date: 
1900-1910
Medium: 
Metal, glass
Dimensions: 
30 x 17 1/2 in. diameter
Description: 
A glass and copper hanging oil lamp, converted to electricity, with a mechanical chain retraction device at the top which made it easy to raise and lower the lamp for refilling of the oil reservoir. The circular thin white glass shade is hand painted on both sides with purple flowers with green leaves and brown branches and reads in black "The Pittsburgh Lamp". The white glass oil reservoir, printed with pink flowers with green leaves, hangs under the shade and although converted to hold an electric light bulb still retains its wick adjustment knob and refill cap.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number: 
2002.1.3198
Gallery Label: 

The Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass and Glass Company produced a variety of oil and kerosene lamps during the early twentieth century and was re-named Kopp Glass in 1926 after its owner and chemist, Nicholas Kopp.

Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1910
eMuseum Object ID: 
51375
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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