Dental floss in a glass cylinder with metal cap, and a paper label that reads “NEW ERA / DENTAL FLOSS / Johnson & Johnson / NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., CHICAGO, ILL. / MADE IN U.S.A.” The firm, incorporated in 1887, promoted the use of antiseptic medical and surgical procedures and products. The product was on the market by 1906, with advertisements describing it as “a new kind of floss, a flat thread with fine corrugated surface; made in a new form; put up in a new and original style package one half the size of other kinds; each and every feature being an improvement in a material that has known little change or progress in years.”
Here, a circular coil and three pairs of binding posts are mounted on a wooden base marked “WOOD / O.D. 100 / I.D. 71” while a metal bar is marked “WM GAERTNER & CO. / CHICAGO.” L. E. Knott called this small instrument a Faraday’s Ring and Demonstration Transformer, describing it as a simple apparatus “designed for study of the principles and laws involved in self and secondary induction.” The Chicago Apparatus Co. called it a “Hysteresis Coil. Designed to meet the requirements of Experiment No. 15 in Millikan and Mills, ‘Electricity, Sound and Light.’”
Ref: Robert Andrews Millikan and John Mills, A Short University Course in Electricity, Sound and Light (Boston, 1908), pp. 164-165.
Wm. Gaertner Co. Catalog (Chicago, 1929), p. 2.
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., Catalogue of Physical Instruments (Boston, 1912), p. 466.
Chicago Apparatus Co., Physical Instruments, Apparatus, and Supplies (Chicago, ca. 1931), p. 239.
This sheet music is for “Patsy Montana's New Songs: Those Two Little Kids of Mine / Montana, I Hear You Calling Me. It was published by Hilliard-Currie Corporation in Chicago, Illinois in 1945. The cover features an image of country music vocalist, Patsy Montana, and on the back an image of Patsy Montana's family. The front is signed: "To Darlene from Patsy Montana."
"Under the Old Apple Tree." Words and music by Gene Autry. (Calumet Music Co. Chicago, 1932)
White paper cover with black and orange ink featuring a graphic of a couple under a tree and and image of "Mac" McCloud. Inside white paper pages with black ink.
Scale purchased by Harold and Mary Jeanette (Zehrer) Dudley in Worcester County, MA., ca. 1940, and used by family members for four generations. The inscription on the dial reads “HANSON / MODEL 3025 / NURSERY SCALE / . . . CHICAGO, . . . USA.” The Hanson Scale Company was established in 1888 by Mainus and William Hanson, recent immigrants from Denmark. Many Hanson scales were made of sheet metal, and so were lighter and easier to handle than those of cast iron. The Sunbeam Corporation purchased Hanson in 1968.