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- National Company, Inc. Radio Insulators, 1930-1939 - Insulators--made of poor electrical conductors such as glass, ceramic, plastic, or composite materials--help make electric power and communication transmission lines safe. They isolate wires from utility poles, transmission towers, and buildings--structures that are made of conductive materials that could cause signal degradation, power loss, fire, or pose a shock hazard if the lines touched them.
- 1930-1939
- Collections - Artifact
National Company, Inc. Radio Insulators, 1930-1939
Insulators--made of poor electrical conductors such as glass, ceramic, plastic, or composite materials--help make electric power and communication transmission lines safe. They isolate wires from utility poles, transmission towers, and buildings--structures that are made of conductive materials that could cause signal degradation, power loss, fire, or pose a shock hazard if the lines touched them.
- National Company, Inc. Antenna Insulator, 1930-1939 - Insulators--made of poor electrical conductors such as glass, ceramic, plastic, or composite materials--help make electric power and communication transmission lines safe. They isolate wires from utility poles, transmission towers, and buildings--structures that are made of conductive materials that could cause signal degradation, power loss, fire, or pose a shock hazard if the lines touched them.
- 1930-1939
- Collections - Artifact
National Company, Inc. Antenna Insulator, 1930-1939
Insulators--made of poor electrical conductors such as glass, ceramic, plastic, or composite materials--help make electric power and communication transmission lines safe. They isolate wires from utility poles, transmission towers, and buildings--structures that are made of conductive materials that could cause signal degradation, power loss, fire, or pose a shock hazard if the lines touched them.
- Kool Sanitary Sipping Straws, circa 1950 -
- circa 1950
- Collections - Artifact
Kool Sanitary Sipping Straws, circa 1950
- Cuticura Soap, 1920-1949 -
- 1920-1949
- Collections - Artifact
Cuticura Soap, 1920-1949
- Trade Card for Higgins' German Laundry Soap, Charles S. Higgins Company, 1870-1890 - 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.
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Higgins' German Laundry Soap, Charles S. Higgins Company, 1870-1890
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.
- Crystal Filter Socket, circa 1930 -
- circa 1930
- Collections - Artifact
Crystal Filter Socket, circa 1930
- Cuticura Soap, Mildly Medicated For Skin Care, 1920-1949 -
- 1920-1949
- Collections - Artifact
Cuticura Soap, Mildly Medicated For Skin Care, 1920-1949
- Harding-Coolidge Campaign Button, 1920 - Republicans chose Warren G. Harding as their presidential nominee in 1920. The good-natured Ohioan promised Americans tired of war and its lingering effects a "return to normalcy." This refrain played well with voters. Harding and his running mate, Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge, won in a landslide.
- 1920
- Collections - Artifact
Harding-Coolidge Campaign Button, 1920
Republicans chose Warren G. Harding as their presidential nominee in 1920. The good-natured Ohioan promised Americans tired of war and its lingering effects a "return to normalcy." This refrain played well with voters. Harding and his running mate, Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge, won in a landslide.
- Trade Card for Higgins' German Laundry Soap, Charles S. Higgins Company, 1870-1890 - 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.
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Higgins' German Laundry Soap, Charles S. Higgins Company, 1870-1890
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.
- Cyclist Margaret Kirkwood with a Bicycle, circa 1890 - Bicycles meant a measure of independence for many 1890s women. Margaret Kirkwood of Malden, Massachusetts, even brought hers to a portrait studio.
- circa 1890
- Collections - Artifact
Cyclist Margaret Kirkwood with a Bicycle, circa 1890
Bicycles meant a measure of independence for many 1890s women. Margaret Kirkwood of Malden, Massachusetts, even brought hers to a portrait studio.