Stockyards pencil, white plastic body with eraser end and metal insert end fitted with a short pencil. Printed logo with "Louis Lyon & Son" consisting of 2 lions above the words "We fight like lions for you." "Live Stock Commission Merchants / Union Stock Yards, Lancaster, Pa. / Phone 7915"
Political pin of a donkey wearing a bowler hat. Non-ferrous metal form has raised outline filled in with molten bluish glass. Raised letters on body are "AL SMITH".
Alfred Smith was a presidential candidate running against Herbert Hoover in 1928. Smith was a leader of the Progressive Movement and a "wet", or anti-prohibition candidate. He lost in a landslide.
Hand stamp with raised lettering of rubber mounted onto oblong wood block fitted with turned and finished wood handle.
Used to mark objects with: "For Sale By / H. C. Slaymaker, / The House Furnishing Man, / [deteriorated number 147?] N. Queen St. Lancaster, Pa."
H.C. Slaymaker, Agent, was listed as a salesman during the 1860s in Lancaster. Harry C. Slaymaker was listed circa 1892-1916 variously as a bookkeeper, clerk, secretary and treasurer while living at 230 E. Orange St.
Wooden souvenir whistle with pasted paper band around body printed with "I am blowing for / Ideal Hygrade / Milk and Ice Cream / Ideal Milk Products Co. / Lancaster, PA"
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.
