Wooden printing block with etching on copper showing entryway to Watt & Shand department store. Etching on copper is less than 1/8 inch thick and held to block with 4 small nails.
Wooden printing block with 3 images of storefront of Watt & Shand department store. 1878 at top, 1898 below, and larger undated image of entire building at center bottom, probably the most current appearance at the time of creation of printing block. Labeled Watt & Shand below lowest image Irregularly shaped metal etching held to block with 8 nails. Deep etching. Block is pieced.
Wooden printing block of northwest corner of Watt & Shand department store in Lancaster city, shows American flags flying from the roof. Approximately 1/8 inch thick copper plate held to block by 6 nails. Brown paper stuck to back.
Wooden printing block showing Watt & Shand department store facade with Soldiers & Sailors monument in Center Square Lancaster city. Golden Jubilee 1928 inset on viewer's lower left shows doorway and sidewalk. Entire image is surrounded by 2 parallel lines as a border with flourishes around inset. Pink or salmon paper stuck to back.
Bottle, clear glass with black plastic lid. Paper label reads "Stanley C. Suter, M.D. / 110 W. Frederick St. Millersville, Pa./ Office hours, 12:30 to 2 & 6 to 8 P.M./ Thursdays and Sundays by appointment/ Telephone Millersville 2321/ Directions: Take 1 teaspoonfuls Every 3 hours."
Neck and upper bottle decorated in glass with a fluted collar that ends with a scalloped edge. On the side, enclosed in an oval, "Ideal Milk Products co. Lancaster, PA." On the other side "One pint liquid." On the base "A.B.C. 2 - Registered" On bottom, in big letters "LMP"
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.
Lathe-turned wooden tar bucket with fitted lid and remnants of leather straps. Cylindrical vessel has slight taper inward toward middle. Decorated with two double score marks below center. Above center are shoulders jutting outward with vertical holes through which straps of leather handle pass. Handle also passes through lid of conforming shape, although one strap broken off at shoulder while the other is broken off 3 inches above shoulder.Center hole in lid apparently accepted a now-missing stick used to apply tar to wheels. Broken-off 5-inch length of leather strap rests inside. Tar residue in bucket.
Lancaster County or region.
Provenance
Donor believes bucket descended from family members to his parents who displayed it on their mantle. Donor inherited it from parents.
Oval tinned sheet iron container for scales (1950.002.2). Interior of case lined with green wool coarse-weave fabric. Exterior painted black over original layer of asphaltum.
Half-tone print, "Remembrance of the First Holy Communion" of "John Tragesser / Holy Trinity Church, Columbia, Pa , 11 June 1916." Signed in ink by the pastor (faded and unable to read).
Picture of Jesus Christ holding a glowing circular medallion with a cross and IHS. Distributed by "The Diederich-Schaefer Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin (No. 2022); and "Printed in Germany."
In 1754 Thomas Cope gave this simple coin to his son, Caleb, when he reached the age of 9. The year on the coin was also the year of Caleb's birth. Twenty-one years later the coin would end up in the hand of a British Officer who would conspire with Benedict Arnold in an attempt to capture one of the colonies' most important military installations.
A. Eyeglasses - With plated steel frames marked "10"
B. Case, Eyeglasses - Black cardboard, label on one side "Steiman Hardware Company Lancaster PA", other side marked with printing "Arundel Tinted, Edw. J. Zahm, Jeweler, Zahm's Corner, Lancaster PA"
