Tiny box with fitted lid, light cardboard covered in glossy white paper. Printed on lid top in blue is: "LOUIS WEBER & SON / GOLDSMITHS & SILVERSMITHS / 15-17 NO. QUEEN ST. / LANCASTER, PENNA." Above this is a shield with spread eagle and a banner underneath with "ESTABLISHED 19??".
Louis Weber was in the jewelry business on N. Queen St. since the 19th century. It was at 165 N. Queen that his son George R. Weber apparently took over the business and took on a new name -- Louis Weber & Son. This was the listing in the 1905-06 City Directory. By the next year in the 1907-08 Directory, the business was relocated to 15-17 N. Queen Street, the address printed on the box lid.
Booklet from Brubaker's Hatchery titled "Brubaker's Strain Single Comb White Leghorns, mating list 1914. 12 pages, 6 leaves. Publisher listed on back cover: Poultry Item Press, Sellersville, Penna.
"Half Gal / Product of / The Garden County / of the U.S.A. / Lancaster / Ransing Daisy Brand / Products / E. A. Ransing Sons / Lancaster, PA"
-This was a vinegar jug. the firm started out at present site of Eastern Market Building, c. 1900. Later moved to Water and Hazel St. where they operated to 1929.
another Ransing jug once existed in collection as 1976.8 donated by Joseph E. McKinney
"Half Gal / Product of / The Garden County / of the U.S.A. / Lancaster / Ransing Daisy Brand / Products / E. A. Ransing Sons / Lancaster, PA"
-This was a vinegar jug. the firm started out at present site of Eastern Market Building, c. 1900. Later moved to Water and Hazel St. where they operated to 1929.
another Ransing jug once existed in collection as 1976.8 donated by Joseph E. McKinney
Cardboard paddle in footprint shape has two flaps of pressed, colored paper in the form of a hatted frog, stapled to opposite sides. Makes clapping sound when shaken.
One side, on handle section is printed: "I AM CLAPPING / FOR / IDEAL ICE CREAM."
Dimensional frog heads are stamped: "Germany"
Provenance
Donor states that on Jan. 1, 1929, York Sanitary Milk Co., Lancaster Sanitary Milk Co. and Ideal Milk Products Co. combined to form Penn Dairies.
Overall soil and wear. Ink stains on both side of paddle. Considerable wear on both paddle and frog image, especially at top of hat and at bottom of paddle handle, resulting in partial loss of printed message.
