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- Lewis & Cady "Our Next President" Presidential Election Crock, circa 1860 - This crock was made of a durable, leak-proof pottery called stoneware. The orange-peel-like outer glaze was created when the potter threw handfuls of common rock salt into a white-hot kiln during the piece's firing. Salt-glazed stoneware pieces were decorated with an array of designs, including this caricatured image of Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas from the 1860 Presidential campaign.
- circa 1860
- Collections - Artifact
Lewis & Cady "Our Next President" Presidential Election Crock, circa 1860
This crock was made of a durable, leak-proof pottery called stoneware. The orange-peel-like outer glaze was created when the potter threw handfuls of common rock salt into a white-hot kiln during the piece's firing. Salt-glazed stoneware pieces were decorated with an array of designs, including this caricatured image of Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas from the 1860 Presidential campaign.
- Ayer's American Almanac 1907 - Almanacs contained practical information about the coming year. Readers normally found a calendar, weather predictions, tide schedules, and information related to astronomical events, agriculture, health, politics and other matters. Interspersed were jokes and witty sayings. Beginning in the late 1800s, James Cook Ayer, a keen advertiser and successful patent medicine dealer, published almanacs to entice the public to buy his line of products.
- 1907
- Collections - Artifact
Ayer's American Almanac 1907
Almanacs contained practical information about the coming year. Readers normally found a calendar, weather predictions, tide schedules, and information related to astronomical events, agriculture, health, politics and other matters. Interspersed were jokes and witty sayings. Beginning in the late 1800s, James Cook Ayer, a keen advertiser and successful patent medicine dealer, published almanacs to entice the public to buy his line of products.