This steel, glass and plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1967. It has a screw-on green plastic cup lid with handle and green plastic stopper. The bottle features colorful action images of Tarzan swinging through the jungle, watched by his ape friend Cheeta and a child.
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This steel, glass and plastic thermos bottle was made by Aladdin Industries in 1967. It has a screw-on green plastic cup lid with handle and green plastic stopper. The bottle features colorful action images of Tarzan swinging through the jungle, watched by his ape friend Cheeta and a child.
Comic book featuring the pulp action hero “Tarzan”. DC’s Tarzan of the Apes series ran from 1972-1977. It began with issue no. 207, following the sequencing of the Title’s former publisher, Gold Key Comics, whose version ran from 1948-1972.
“Tarzan” is a fictional character created by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Burrough’s introduced his vine-swinging jungle hero in the story Tarzan of the Apes first published in the magazine The All-Story in 1912. The story was later reprinted as a standalone novel in 1914.
An Englishman from a noble family, Tarzan’s family dies while on an African Expedition. As an infant he us taken in and raised by Apes in Africa, learning to communicate with animals and developing exceptions strength and dexterity. Although he later discovers his human origins, Tarzan decides to remain in the jungle, developing a romantic relationship with marooned Englishwoman Jane Porter.
One of the 20th centuries first action-adventure heroes, Tarzan became a global phenomenon, inspiring the prolific Burroughs, also known for works such as his John Carter of Mars series, to pen 23 sequels featuring his “ape-man.” Inspiring scores of other pulp adventure heroes, Tarzan has become of the world’s most recognized literary characters. He remains a vital part of our shared popular culture, featured in novelizations, comic books, television, and feature films.
Reflecting many outdated cultural beliefs, the story of Tarzan expressed many elitist and racist notions accepted at the time of Burrough’s writing.
This steel lunch box was manufactured by Aladdin Industries in 1966. The lunch box features images of the comic strip version of Batman and Robin that ran from 1966-1974. These Batman and Robin strips took on the some of the campy nature of television’s Batman, but also introduced some of the series most interesting storylines.
This leaflet describes generally the use of Univac service Centers to pool data processing equipment (including both tabulating machines and computers) to produce payroll and personnel reports. The Remington Rand Univac form number is U1819.
This trombone was made by Conn in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1969. It is a valve model trombone, serial #M76252. Accessioned with a soft canvas case. This trombone is inscribed:
CG CONN LTD Victor USA
This trombone was previously owned and used by William Russo (1928-2003), American composer, arranger, musician, teacher, and founder of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. Russo composed more than 200 pieces for jazz orchestra. Throughout his career, Russo work included collaborations with Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Stan Kenton, Cannonball Adderley, Yehudi Menuhin, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Cleo Laine, and Billie Holiday.
With her camera, Lisa Law documented history in the heart of the counterculture revolution of the 1960s as she lived it, as a participant, an agent of change and a member of the broader culture. She recorded this unconventional time of Anti-War demonstrations in California, communes, Love-Ins, peace marches and concerts, as well as her family life as she became a wife and mother. The photographs were collected by William Yeingst and Shannon Perich in a cross-unit collecting collaboration. Together they selected over two hundred photographs relevant to photographic history, cultural history, domestic life and social history.
Law’s portraiture and concert photographs include Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Lovin Spoonful and Peter, Paul and Mary. She also took several of Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, including the photograph used to create the poster included in the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum’s exhibition 1001 Days and Nights in American Art. Law and other members of the Hog Farm were involved in the logistics of setting up the well-known musical extravaganza, Woodstock. Her photographs include the teepee poles going into the hold of the plane, a few concert scenes and amenities like the kitchen and medical tent. Other photographs include peace rallies and concerts in Haight-Ashbury, Coretta Scott King speaking at an Anti-War protest and portraits of Allen Ginsburg and Timothy Leary. From her life in New Mexico the photographs include yoga sessions with Yogi Bhajan, bus races, parades and other public events. From life on the New Buffalo Commune, there are many pictures of her family and friends taken during meal preparation and eating, farming, building, playing, giving birth and caring for children.
Ms. Law did not realize how important her photographs were while she was taking them. It was not until after she divorced her husband, left the farm for Santa Fe and began a career as a photographer that she realized the depth of history she recorded. Today, she spends her time writing books, showing her photographs in museums all over the United States and making documentaries. In 1990, her video documentary, “Flashing on the Sixties,” won several awards.
A selection of photographs was featured in the exhibition A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1964–1971, at the National Museum of American History October 1998-April 1999.
This steel and glass thermos bottle was made by Aladdin in 1961. It has a screw-on blue plastic cup lid with handle and screw-on red plastic stopper. The bottle features cartoon images of Ludwig Von Drake in Disneyland. It is the companion bottle to lunch box number 2003.3070.10.01.
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Lanteen Powder is a pleasantly perfumed mildly astringent formulation specially prepared for internal hygienic use. When used as directed, it provides a cleansing, soothing solution recommended for personal hygiene, after menstruation or marital relations.
This tin, plastic and glass thermos bottle was made by Thermos in 1969. It has a screw-on, green plastic cup lid and a beige and red screw-on, plastic stopper. The bottle has colorful drawings from the television show Julia on the side of the thermos.
About Homer Laughlin China Company: The Homer Laughlin firm was founded in 1871 in Newell, West Virginia by the two brothers, Shakespeare and Homer Laughlin. A long-lived pottery, it survived two world wars and continued until 2020, when it was sold to Steelite, a British tableware manufacturer. Though Homer Laughlin China produced art pottery in its earlier days, it is best known for its Fiesta line, a brightly-colored Art Deco-styled set of tableware that was designed by the noted ceramicist, Frederick Hurten Rhead. Rhead was Homer Laughlin's art director from 1927 until his death in 1942. Fiesta ware is still produced by Fiesta Tableware Company, a division of Steelite. The New York Times called Fiesta “the most collected brand of china in the United States” (Alexander 2002). Homer Laughlin China Company was known for many dinnerware designs and also produced commemorative plates and art pottery vases.
(Alexander, Kelly, 2002.“The Way We Live Now”. The New York Times, December 1.)
About Fiesta Ware and Frederick Hurten Rhead: Frederick Hurten Rhead was born to a ceramics family in Staffordshire, England and emigrated to the United States in 1902 at age 22. He held many positions, working for William P. Jervis at the Vance/Avon Faience Company, Weller Pottery, Rosedale Pottery, and Jervis Pottery, until appointed instructor at the experimental University City Pottery in St. Louis in 1909. Two years later, he joined Arequipa Pottery in California and stayed for two years before organizing Pottery of the Camarata, incorporated as Rhead Pottery, in Santa Barbara in 1914 (Kovel and Kovel1993:158). His refined, simplified designs inspired other potters and became emblematic of the Arts and Crafts movement. Rhead was responsible for designs and glazing, and he assigned throwing to two wheel experts; decoration was also sometimes assigned to other artists. Rhead was inspired by ancient Chinese pottery and the Art Nouveau Movement and often created inlaid and incised designs using scarab, peacock, and landscape scenes (Evans 1987:236). Rhead won a gold medal at the San Diego Exposition of 1915, but his work was not financially successful, and Rhead Pottery closed in 1917. He then returned to Zanesville, Ohio, where he worked at the American Encaustic Tiling Company for ten years and in 1927 became the art director for Homer Laughlin China Company in Newell, West Virginia. With that company, he designed his famous Art Deco Fiesta Ware china line in the 1930s. He stayed there until his death in 1942.
(Evans, Paul, 1987. Art Pottery of the United States. New York: Feingold and Lewis Publishing Corp.; Kovel, Ralph and Terry Kovel, 1993. Kovels’ American Art Pottery: The Collector’s Guide to Makers, Marks and Factory Histories. New York: Crown Publishers.)
About the Object:
Fiesta 7" plate; white-bodied, molded, covered with Turqouise glaze. Original shape.
This Akai reel-to-reel tape recorder was imported from Japan in the late 1960s. The professional-grade recorder used transistors rather than older style vacuum tubes. That reduced power consumption and made the electronics much lighter. However, the unit features a wooden case and cover that makes it heavier than most recorders in the collection.
Japanese industrialists viewed the task of rebuilding after World War Two as an opportunity to modernize their production facilities and product lines. The transistor was one new technology in which they invested heavily.