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- Harter Steel Posture Chairs Sales Brochure, circa 1933 - Virgil Exner's long career in design included time with General Motors, Raymond Loewy Associates, and Studebaker. Exner is best remembered for his work at Chrysler, where he headed design efforts from 1953 to 1961. Following his retirement from Chrysler, Exner consulted on multiple projects including concept cars, motorboats, and revivals of the Duesenberg and Stutz automobile brands.
- circa 1933
- Collections - Artifact
Harter Steel Posture Chairs Sales Brochure, circa 1933
Virgil Exner's long career in design included time with General Motors, Raymond Loewy Associates, and Studebaker. Exner is best remembered for his work at Chrysler, where he headed design efforts from 1953 to 1961. Following his retirement from Chrysler, Exner consulted on multiple projects including concept cars, motorboats, and revivals of the Duesenberg and Stutz automobile brands.
- Trade Card for Dr. Jayne's Patent Medicines, "He Won't Hurt You!," 1880-1900 - 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.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Dr. Jayne's Patent Medicines, "He Won't Hurt You!," 1880-1900
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.
- Secretary Desk Used by Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Jackson Home, Selma, Alabama - This desk sat in the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, friends of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. During the struggle to win voting rights in the 1960s, King often stayed with the Jacksons. At this desk, King outlined speeches that he would give -- first, composing his thoughts on paper, then committing them to memory.
- 1920-1929
- Collections - Artifact
Secretary Desk Used by Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Jackson Home, Selma, Alabama
This desk sat in the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, friends of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. During the struggle to win voting rights in the 1960s, King often stayed with the Jacksons. At this desk, King outlined speeches that he would give -- first, composing his thoughts on paper, then committing them to memory.