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- Plate, 1898-1906 -
- 1898-1906
- Collections - Artifact
Plate, 1898-1906
- Saucer, 1912 -
- 1912
- Collections - Artifact
Saucer, 1912
- Cup, 1912 -
- 1912
- Collections - Artifact
Cup, 1912
- Oil Painting, Frigate, 1825-1850 -
- 1825-1850
- Collections - Artifact
Oil Painting, Frigate, 1825-1850
- Trade Card for Pure and Healthy Soaps, Lautz Bros. Co., circa 1885 - 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.
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Pure and Healthy Soaps, Lautz Bros. Co., circa 1885
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.
- School Reward of Merit Given to Milend Peck by His Teacher R. A. Sanford, 1847 - During the nineteenth-century, teachers recognized students with paper "rewards of merit." These small tokens commended a student's excellent work, perfect attendance, good behavior or other noteworthy accomplishment. Some contained simple handwritten sentiments from the teacher to the pupil. Many were printed and colorful, with space available to write in the student's name as well as their own.
- 1847
- Collections - Artifact
School Reward of Merit Given to Milend Peck by His Teacher R. A. Sanford, 1847
During the nineteenth-century, teachers recognized students with paper "rewards of merit." These small tokens commended a student's excellent work, perfect attendance, good behavior or other noteworthy accomplishment. Some contained simple handwritten sentiments from the teacher to the pupil. Many were printed and colorful, with space available to write in the student's name as well as their own.