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- Guests of the Ford Motor Company in the Courtyard of the Ford Building, California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935 - Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, constructing the fair's largest and most popular exhibition. Ford's massive steel and concrete building enclosed an open-air courtyard featuring a V-8 emblem-shaped fountain. This group of New York Life Insurance executives posed in the space, where guests could rest and enjoy daily musical performances.
- 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Guests of the Ford Motor Company in the Courtyard of the Ford Building, California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935
Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, constructing the fair's largest and most popular exhibition. Ford's massive steel and concrete building enclosed an open-air courtyard featuring a V-8 emblem-shaped fountain. This group of New York Life Insurance executives posed in the space, where guests could rest and enjoy daily musical performances.
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Calendar for 1909 -
- 1909
- Collections - Artifact
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Calendar for 1909
- Postcard Advertising the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Calendar for 1909 -
- 1908-1909
- Collections - Artifact
Postcard Advertising the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Calendar for 1909
- Fan from Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church, circa 1960 - Worshipers in the mid-1900s used inexpensive, handheld fans to keep cool in churches without air conditioning--especially in the American South. Local funeral homes often supplied congregations with these fans. One side usually depicted biblical scenes, devotional settings, or even famous individuals. On the other side, the businesses listed vital services and contact information.
- circa 1960
- Collections - Artifact
Fan from Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church, circa 1960
Worshipers in the mid-1900s used inexpensive, handheld fans to keep cool in churches without air conditioning--especially in the American South. Local funeral homes often supplied congregations with these fans. One side usually depicted biblical scenes, devotional settings, or even famous individuals. On the other side, the businesses listed vital services and contact information.
- Trade Card for Industrial Insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1870-1900 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1870-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Industrial Insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1870-1900
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Fan from Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church, circa 1960 - Worshipers in the mid-1900s used inexpensive, handheld fans to keep cool in churches without air conditioning--especially in the American South. Local funeral homes often supplied congregations with these fans. One side usually depicted biblical scenes, devotional settings, or even famous individuals. On the other side, the businesses listed vital services and contact information.
- circa 1960
- Collections - Artifact
Fan from Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church, circa 1960
Worshipers in the mid-1900s used inexpensive, handheld fans to keep cool in churches without air conditioning--especially in the American South. Local funeral homes often supplied congregations with these fans. One side usually depicted biblical scenes, devotional settings, or even famous individuals. On the other side, the businesses listed vital services and contact information.