photo album with soiled, cream colored leather cover with "Photo Album" on front and a sticker that reads "Holidays 1939-1949'; black paper pages; photographs and postcards, most adhered to page using black photo corners; travel to florida, new york; beach; Belonged to Patricia Anne Cohen, formerly actor Patricia English
green bound album with gold writing on front cover and spine that reads "Family Album 1910-1948"; black paper pages; photograph album containing photos of kids, kids with toys, kids on bicycles, families on vacation, kids in a classroom, automobiles; Belonged to Patricia Anne Cohen, formerly actor Patricia English
Exhibits vending machine postcard featuring Cincinnati Reds baseball player Henry Sauer.
Outfielder Henry “Hank” Sauer played Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds (1941-1942, 1948-49), Chicago Cubs (1949-1955) St. Louis Cardinals (1956) and New York/ San Francisco Giants (1957-1959).
1952’s National League Most Valuable Player and a two-time All-Star, Sauer had a lifetime .266 batting average with 288 home runs and 876 runs batted in.
Brown leather boots with brown laces and brown stitching. These were worn by the donor, Earl Shaffer, during his hike of the Appalachian Trail in 1948. This was the first of three times Shaffer was said to have walked the entire length of the 2,180 miles of the Trail. He hiked through again in 1965 and 1998. The Appalachian Trail is one of the longest continuously marked footpaths in the world, traveling through fourteen states along the Appalachian mountain range from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to the Trail’s northern end in Katahdin, Maine. The trail—completed in 1937 thanks to the cooperation of government agencies, private partners, and volunteers—continues to be sustained by public-private partnerships.
Glass bottle with a thermometer attached to the front, and red inscriptions that read in part “Temp-Guard / BABY BOTTLE / EISELE & CO.” The inventor was Charles Logan Eisele, Jr. (1919-1965) of Nashville, Tn.
Ref: Logan Eisele, “Bottle with Temperature Indicating Means,” U.S. Patent 2,346,832 (April 18, 1944).
Adelaide Bavoso Benvengo, the donor, explained that this first aid kit was used by her father, Sgt. Carmine V. Bavoso, during World War II. Many of the included items were supplied by the Medical Supply Co., in Rockford, Il.
This sextant was made for emergency use during World War II. The body is plastic. The scale is graduated every degree from -5° to +140° and read by vernier to 3 minutes of arc. The box is marked "U.S. MARITIME COMMISSION / CRUVER MFG. CO." The Cruver Manufacturing Co., in Chicago, began making novelty objects of plastic in the early 1900s. The U.S. Maritime Commission (fl. 1936 to 1950) was responsible for further developing and maintaining a merchant marine for the promotion of American commerce and defense.
Ref: W. J. Eckert, Lifeboat Sextant. Instructions for Use in Finding Latitude and Longitude Together with Simple Sailing Instructions (U.S. Naval Observatory, 1944).
Bruce V. Moore (1891—1977), an industrial psychologist at Pennsylvania State College (later Pennsylvania State University) published this test leaflet in 1941. It consists of twenty word problems involving use of arithmetic, with spaces for writing the answer.
This is one of a series of psychological tests given to the Smtihsonian by Cincinnati Boss Company.
Reference:
For Moore’s autobiography, see the website of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology at: http://www.siop.org/presidents/Moore.aspx.
This type of sextant was introduced during World War II. The limb is graduated to single degrees. A drum micrometer, the teeth of which mesh with teeth cut into the edge of the limb, reads to 1 minute and, with vernier, to 6 seconds of arc. The inscriptions read "David White Co. Milwaukee, Wis." and "U.S. NAVY, BU. NAV. MARK II"
Ref: Benjamin Dutton, Navigation and Nautical Astronomy (Annapolis, Md., 1948), pp. 347-355.
This organdy nurse's cap was worn by Elizabeth Brizindine, a 1945 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. Most nursing schools had their own distinct caps which were given out upon graduation. They were often a point of pride, a prestigious symbol designating ones academic credentials, not unlike t-shirts or sweatshirts with the name of one's university emblazoned across the chest. Once men entered the nursing profession in greater numbers in the early 1970s, caps became less important and are now considered a memento for those graduate nurses who choose to purchase them.