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- Mourning Rosette, 1880-1890 -
- 1880-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Mourning Rosette, 1880-1890
- Wright Cycle Shop, Dayton, Ohio, 1910-1911 - Wilbur and Orville Wright operated their bicycle business in this building, at 1127 West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio, from 1897 to 1908. They formed the Wright Company to manufacture airplanes in 1909 and settled into a new factory. But the Wrights continued to lease the West Third shop until 1916, using it for office space and experimental work.
- 1910-1911
- Collections - Artifact
Wright Cycle Shop, Dayton, Ohio, 1910-1911
Wilbur and Orville Wright operated their bicycle business in this building, at 1127 West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio, from 1897 to 1908. They formed the Wright Company to manufacture airplanes in 1909 and settled into a new factory. But the Wrights continued to lease the West Third shop until 1916, using it for office space and experimental work.
- Ralph Schugar's Aerial Hearse, a Ford Tri-Motor 4-AT-52 Airplane, Curtiss-Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1931 -
- June 09, 1931
- Collections - Artifact
Ralph Schugar's Aerial Hearse, a Ford Tri-Motor 4-AT-52 Airplane, Curtiss-Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1931
- Ralph Schugar's Aerial Hearse, a Ford Tri-Motor 4-AT-52 Airplane, Curtiss-Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1931 - Operators adapted Ford Tri-Motor airplanes for every imaginable use. Pittsburgh mortician Ralph Schugar earned a pilot's license and turned his Tri-Motor into an aerial hearse. The death of a loved one is never easy, particularly when it occurs far from home. Schugar's unusual service reduced wait time and worry for the survivors, at a cost comparable to railroad transport.
- June 09, 1931
- Collections - Artifact
Ralph Schugar's Aerial Hearse, a Ford Tri-Motor 4-AT-52 Airplane, Curtiss-Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1931
Operators adapted Ford Tri-Motor airplanes for every imaginable use. Pittsburgh mortician Ralph Schugar earned a pilot's license and turned his Tri-Motor into an aerial hearse. The death of a loved one is never easy, particularly when it occurs far from home. Schugar's unusual service reduced wait time and worry for the survivors, at a cost comparable to railroad transport.
- Needle Case and Advertising Card for Nicholas Emmerling, Funeral Director, Hammond, Indiana, circa 1941 -
- circa 1941
- Collections - Artifact
Needle Case and Advertising Card for Nicholas Emmerling, Funeral Director, Hammond, Indiana, circa 1941
- Trade Card for A. C. Johnson, Furniture Dealer and Undertaker, 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 A. C. Johnson, Furniture Dealer and Undertaker, 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.