Wooden cigar mold. 2 wooden pieces that fit together anchored by a single 3/4-inch high peg placed 1 inch from each end on top mold piece. 2 holes on bottom to receive pegs. Molds for 20 cigars. Impressed on base at one end: "500081" At opposite end: "8 Durex 13"
Wooden cigar mold. 2 wooden pieces that fit together anchored by wooden pegs (3/4" high) placed 1 inch from ends on top mold. 2 holes on bottom to receive pegs. Molds for 20 cigars.
Some identifying print in black letters on both pieces --basically unreadable: "New York ? Hemiller?." On bottom piece: "Pat Dec 4 ?"
Heavy steel sign with inward-curved corners and raised edge. Four recessed drilled holes. In raised block letters: "A.C. WELCHANS/ BUILDER/ LANCASTER, PA."
Thin sheet of wood with angled corners broken into two pieces by a horizontal crack . A pasted 9.25 x 6.875-inch page of newsprint dated "1870" advertises "Furniture, Upholstering, Bedding & House Furnishing Goods" available at A.K. Hoffmeier's 23 East King Street store in Lancaster, PA. "Cork shavings sold by the pound. Also hair, husk, excelsior (sic), spring, rep, hair cloth, &c....Venetian blinds...children's carriages...express wagons, carts, barrows, gigs, rocking horses, sleighs, velocipedes, &c." Page was printed by Wylie & Griest's Inquirer Steam Job Printing Office and Book Bindery, No. 38 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
Date Range
1870
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 4
Storage Cabinet
Unit 20
Storage Shelf
Shelf 2
Storage Container
Box 0320
Object Name
Sign, Advertising
Height (cm)
24.765
Height (ft)
0.8125
Height (in)
9.75
Width (cm)
20.32
Width (ft)
0.6666666667
Width (in)
8
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2019-04-01
Condition Notes
Two pieces and knot hole.Tape marks on 4 corners and along edges at crack. Knot in wood fell out taking part of paper with it. Browning and some spots on newsprint.
White oil cloth with black painted lettering: "ERISMAN /DOLL /HOSPITAL/ COSTUMES/ TO-HIRE/ 2nd FLOOR REAR."
White border has tack holes and some tears.
(Item from Doll Hospital and owner mentioned in 1961.005; Portrait of Geo. F.K. Erisman by Florence Starr Taylor: 2003.401)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 4
Storage Cabinet
Unit 19
Storage Shelf
Shelf 4
Storage Container
Box 0244
Object Name
Sign
Height (cm)
149.86
Height (ft)
4.9166666667
Height (in)
59
Width (cm)
60.325
Width (ft)
1.9791666667
Width (in)
23.75
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2019-04-08
Condition Notes
Finish crackled with horizontal lines. Some soiling. Some torn holes along margins where this sign/banner was tacked to display surface. Top margin rolled and stiff.
"Emmy" or National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award given to RCA for Image Orthicon Camera.
This award was given to the Radio Corporation of America, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, and the English Electric Valve Company, for the development of the 4.5 inch image orthicon tube and camera.
While the 4.5 inch orthicon tube and camera may not sound familiar to many, its nickname should sound very familiar. "Emmy" is actually a feminized version of "Immy", which was the nickname for the image orthicon camera used throughout the industry.
"Syd Cassyd, founder and president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, initially proposed that the award be called "Ike," the nickname for a television iconoscope tube, but it was deemed too evocative of WWII hero General Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower. Henry Lubcke, the third Television Academy president, eventually prevailed with "Immy," after the image-orthicon camera tube, which was instrumental in the development of television. "Immy" was feminized as "Emmy" to complement the design chosen for the statuette, which depicted a winged, idealized woman holding an atom."
"Her wings represented the muse of art, and the atom and its electrons the science and technology of the new medium. The Television Academy rejected 47 proposals before accepting the statuette designed by television engineer Louis McManus, whose wife served as its model."
"In 1949, the Television Academy held the first Emmy Awards ceremony, an annual event created to recognize excellence in U.S. television programming, although the initial event was restricted to programming from the Los Angeles area."
This is the last of a dying breed. The RCA and, later, Thomson, plants in Lancaster were devoted to the design of televisions that relied on cathode ray tubes. In their attempts to compete with the growing trend of LCD and plasma televisions, the designers at the plant worked hard to make their televisions thinner. This is the last television to be designed at the Lancaster plant. It is the world's thinnest tube-style wide-screen television. Only 5 were ever produced.
"The image orthocon tube was at one point colloquially referred to as an "Immy". Harry Lubcke, the then-President of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, decided to have their award named after this nickname. Since the statuette was female, it was feminized into 'Emmy'."
Pair of metal cap guns (A & B) with holsters on belt (C) by Hubley Manufacturing. Identical plated metal handguns with molded brown & white plastic grips. Raised foliate decoration on barrel, 6-cylinder and cocking hammer. "MARSHAL" molded on each side under cylinder; cleaning rod has "HUBLEY" and "MADE IN USA" on opposing sides. Left side of cylinder swivels open to chamber for mounting roll of caps.
Leather holsters mounted on adjustable two-piece leather belt with stamped metal buckle at front decorated with longhorn steer, horse-and-horseshoe, six-gun and Indian chief. Series of double holes at back of belt with metal "clasp" or keeper fitted into holes at back for size adjustment. Additional part missing for this closure. Elaborate oak-and-leaf stamped decoration overall of light brown leather against a dark brown ground. Highlighted with bold palomino colored horses, one on each side of belt and each holster front. Constructed with stitching and metal fasteners having "H" on each fastener head. Holster ends fitted with looped leather thong hanging down in double strands for tying to legs.
Height excludes thong; length is the measure of fully extended belt halves.
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2014-04-22
Condition Notes
Leather shows wear, especially the front belt parts and holsters are distorted, creased and abraded. Overall decoration has moderate wear. Reverse of leather has sections with strong wear that are shedding or delaminating. Guns have corrosion on and around hammers. Gun (B) has small loss of plastic at bottom corner of grip. Sizing holes in back odstretched, most grommets appear to be missing and one hole torn through to edge.
Object ID
2014.003.3a-c
Place of Origin
Lancaster
Credit
Gift of Barbara Breneman. In Memory of Robert Posey Breneman.
