This is a Standard Columbia bicycle made by The Pope Manufacturing Company of Boston, Massachusetts around 1881. The Standard Columbia was available in models with front-wheel diameters ranging from 42 to 58 inches. This particular Standard Columbia has a 54- inch wheel and sold for $95. Mr. Frank E. Waring used this in the Washington, D.C., area.
In the 1870s Albert A. Pope founded the Pope Manufacturing Company, the first company to manufacture bicycles on American soil. Pope had previously sold bicycles exported from England, but began building bicycles under the trade name "Columbia" in the Weed Sewing Machine Company's factory in Hartford Connecticut in 1879. By 1890, the company was so successful it had bought the factory from Weed because it needed all the space.
This Standard Columbia has a 54-inch front wheel with 44 radial spokes, and an 18-inch rear wheel with 18 radial spokes, weighing 49 pounds. The 1881 catalog states that this model came in two colors . On the left side of the backbone, under the seat, is a brass manufacturer's nameplate. At the upper end of the forged-steel front fork is the open steering head containing the long steering spindle, which can be adjusted by means of a bolt passing through the top of the head. Straight handlebars carry pear- shaped grips of Siamese buffalo horn and a brake lever on the right side that operates the spoon brake on the front tire. The front-wheel bearings are adjustable double cones, fitting into hardened boxes in the hubs. They are adjusted for wear by an eccentric in the bottom of the fork. The adjustable pedal cranks allow the throw to vary from 5 to 6 inches.
In 1935, the Sanborn Co. acquired the rights to the Cardiette, a portable electrocardiograph developed by John R. Pattee, an inventor, and Hubert Mann, a New York cardiologist. This example, s/n C1799, came to the Museum in 1959.
“Dr. Hubert Mann,” New York Times (Dec. 24, 1975), p. 24.
"Folio," Vol. XIX, No. 9 - A Journal of Music, Drama, Art & Literature. September 1880. Light blue paper cover with black ink. Inside white paper pages with black ink.
A stellation of a regular polyhedron is a polyhedron with faces formed by extending the sides of the faces of the regular polyhedron. One may understand this tan paper model, as showing parts of twenty three-pointed stars, erected on the twenty triangular faces of a regular icosahedron. Only six of the nine triangular faces of each star appear, making for a model with 120 triangular faces.
A paper tag on the model reads: No. 367.
Compare MA.304723.181, MA.304723.192, MA.304723.206, MA.304723.207, 1979.0102.093, and 1979.0102.306.
Reference:
Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 54.
A tan plastic model. This is the central cube which, combined with the pieces of MA.304723.324 and an additional square pyramid, forms a rhombic dodecahedron that can be rearranged into two cubes. This is Wheeler's model 784. For another example, in paper, see MA.304723.328.
Circular stand with tall bracket handle segmented along its bow and fixed at bottom to a conical ring on four, ribbed, conical feet with round bottoms. Small hanging hook for tongs is attached at one side of handle and scroll bracket supports inside at bottom ends. Underside of frame struck incuse "TAUNTON. / SILVER PLATE CO." in serif letters, "BARBOUR BROS. / SILVER / QUADRUPLE." in sans serif letters inside a circle, and "116"; "BARBOUR BROS." mark is overstruck with a sawtooth or zig-zag line. From pickle caster, 1979.0800.01-.04.
A poster advertising a rally at Boston Common to commemorate the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State was well as demanding a withdrawal of the United States from Vietnam.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia, indigestion. Acts on liver, bad taste in mouth, and complexion, and all diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels and digestive organs.
The faces of this double-pointed tan paper model are twelve congruent scalene triangles. A tag reads: 342. Another mark reads: Aug. 19, 1925 (/) No. 342.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For the use in the treatment of skin and scalf affections and for promoting the general health
Engraved "Lily" pattern child's spoon having an ovoid bowl and upturned, flared and rounded handle bright cut on front with a right-curving raceme of lily-of-the-valley above three leaves, quatrefoil-in-circle motif and pendant line of paired leaves. Engraved "Charlie." in script lengthwise on terminal back. Back of handle struck "TOWLE.MF'G.CO" and "6oz." in incuse serif letters. From a three-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife, fork, spoon), 1979.0003.01-.03.