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- Collectible La-Z-Boy Toy Semi Truck, 1989-2001 -
- 1989-2001
- Collections - Artifact
Collectible La-Z-Boy Toy Semi Truck, 1989-2001
- Dolly Ann Kitchen Set, 1927-1935 -
- 1927-1935
- Collections - Artifact
Dolly Ann Kitchen Set, 1927-1935
- McCoy "Red Head 60" Racing Engine, 1956-1966 - Tether cars, gas-powered model race cars, were popular in the 1930s and 1940s. They were raced individually while tethered to a central pivot, or against each other on a scaled-down board track. The McCoy "60" racing engine produced 1.32 horsepower. The "60" referred to its displacement of .6072 cubic inches. The engine used a glow plug for ignition.
- 1956-1966
- Collections - Artifact
McCoy "Red Head 60" Racing Engine, 1956-1966
Tether cars, gas-powered model race cars, were popular in the 1930s and 1940s. They were raced individually while tethered to a central pivot, or against each other on a scaled-down board track. The McCoy "60" racing engine produced 1.32 horsepower. The "60" referred to its displacement of .6072 cubic inches. The engine used a glow plug for ignition.
- "The E-B Line General Catalog No. 62," circa 1917 -
- circa 1917
- Collections - Artifact
"The E-B Line General Catalog No. 62," circa 1917
- Emerson-Brantingham Implement Company Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 7, March 1913, "Emerson Enthusiasm" -
- March 14, 1913
- Collections - Artifact
Emerson-Brantingham Implement Company Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 7, March 1913, "Emerson Enthusiasm"
- Canister of Wormer Granules -
- Collections - Artifact
Canister of Wormer Granules
- Trade Card for Sundstrand Adding and Calculating Machine, Sundstrand Adding Machine Co., circa 1920 - Writing with a quill, metal nib or fountain pen could be messy. Ink could smear or smudge with the slightest touch. In America by the late 1800s absorbent paper blotters became the preferred method to soak up wet ink. Companies produced small inexpensive blotters as advertisements and giveaways well into the twentieth century.
- circa 1920
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Sundstrand Adding and Calculating Machine, Sundstrand Adding Machine Co., circa 1920
Writing with a quill, metal nib or fountain pen could be messy. Ink could smear or smudge with the slightest touch. In America by the late 1800s absorbent paper blotters became the preferred method to soak up wet ink. Companies produced small inexpensive blotters as advertisements and giveaways well into the twentieth century.
- Collectible La-Z-Boy Toy Truck, 1989-2001 -
- 1989-2001
- Collections - Artifact
Collectible La-Z-Boy Toy Truck, 1989-2001
- Model of Horse-Drawn Mowing Machine, circa 1875 -
- circa 1875
- Collections - Artifact
Model of Horse-Drawn Mowing Machine, circa 1875
- Trade Card for Nudavene Flakes, Rockford Oatmeal Co., 1891-1900 - 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.
- 1891-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Nudavene Flakes, Rockford Oatmeal Co., 1891-1900
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.