Oval pin advertising Squire's Pure Food Products. A pig on a blue background is surrounded by a with yellow border that reads "I Make Squire's Pure Food Products." The pig has a medal around its neck.
Flat, rectangular card advertising the Nicholson File Company of Providence, R.I. It has a red front with green border and an image of a nail file with a product box. The reverse is white with red and black print, and has a calendar for 1937. This was likely an ad for a French-speaking country, as the front reads, "La Lime Qui Dure" and "Une Lime Appropriée Pour Tout Travail" meaning "The File that Lasts" and "A File Suited for All Work."
Description
One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for 1937 and an advertisement for the Nicholson File Company in Providence, R.I. The other side has an image of a Nicholson file, “La Lime Qui Dure.”
Rectangular plastic advertising card for Swift's Premium Ham and Bacon. Front has a color image of a blonde boy in chef's hat, "Swift's Little Cook." He is peeling paper away from the corner of a wrapped ham, revealing passage of government inspection. Reverse has Swift & Co. logo in red and black and a calendar for 1914.
Description
One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for 1914, and an ad for Swift & Co. The other has an image of “Swift’s Little Cook” with a Swift’s Premium Ham and a Swift’s Premium Bacon.
Rectangular plastic card. The front has a blue background with color images of a plate of sausages and a white product box in yellow, white, and blue print. Reverse has a product box image, divisions for a three-inch ruler, and a calendar for 1933.
Description
One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for 1933, and an ad for Swift & Co. Brookfield Pure Pork Sausage. The other has another image of Swift’s Brookfield Pure Pork Sausage.
One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for 1909, and an advertisement for Wm. R. Dell & Sons, Lift Manufacturers in London. The other side is headed “MEMORANDA.”
Pocket card with ruler and calendar for 1935. The front of the card has an image of the Insurance Company of North America's "new building." Back reads: "Oldest American Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Founded 1792 A Philadelphia Institution"
Description
One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for 1935, and ad for the “Oldest American Fire and Marine Insurance Co.” The other has an image of the “NEW BUILDING OF [the] INSURANCE COMPANY of North America / Philadelphia.”
Novelty item in the shape of a milk bottle. One side has a color image of the Sunlight Milk plant. The other bears a trademark for Polk's Best. Included are three retractable toothpicks.
Flat, rectangular celluloid advertisment card for the Dearborn Chemical Company's Boiler Feed Water Treatment, which "prevents scale, corrosion and foaming." A calendar for 1931 is on the front.
Description
One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for 1931, and an advertisement for the Boiler Feed Water Treatment made by the Dearborn Chemical Company. The other side lists several Dearborn products.
This celluloid duck was made by the Viscoloid Co. in Leominster, Mass. This firm began in business, as such, in 1912; it began making novelty items from pyroxylin plastic in 1914; and it became the Dupont Viscoloid Co., Inc. in 1925.
One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for 1935 and an advertisement for the Greenwich Savings Bank in New York. The other side has an image of Mr. Ernest Saver.
Rectangular celluloid card. A photograph of the Agricultural Museum at the New York State Fair Grounds in Syracuse is on the front. Reverse has calendar for the year starting July 1920. The date of Jan 22, 1930, is circled in red to highlight the organization's homecoming. The back of the card reads, "The New York State Agricultural Society // The Mother Agricultural Society of New York State // Organized at Albany // April 30, 1832."
Description
One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for July 1929 – June 1930, and ad for the New York State Agricultural Society. The other has image of the Daniel Parish Whitter Agricultural Museum erected in Syracuse in 1928.
Card from the Celluloid Company. Its front carries an advertisement for the company. On the reverse is a baseball scorecard. The card was given out at the Newark Industrial Exhibition, in 1912.
One side of this celluloid postcard features a black and white photographic image of a wilderness scene at Emerald Isle, British Columbia. The other side has a postmark from Coatesville, Pa.
A blow-molded rattle. Its handle is cream celluloid. The rattle is half a sphere made of multicolored celluloid with a clear plastic cover. Inside are some small plastic pellets to make the rattle sound and two plastic chicks.
A rattle in the shape of an ovoid sphere, made of celluloid. One half of the sphere is cream and the other half is peach. A han-painted image of a child decorates one half. The two halves are fitted tightly together and given extra strength by means of a ribbon that is woven around the seam by means of several holes drilled in the sphere. A celluloid ring is attached to the end of the ribbon. A metal bell is inside the sphere. There are no maker's marks.