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Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Cigar bands album

 Collection
Accession: 1993-271
Abstract:

The heyday of cigar band artwork spans from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries with many of the companies adopting pictorial displays as well as text. The bands were produced through lithographic printing methods. This item is an album of cigar bands collected in the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1900-1915

DuPont Company circa 1804 Eagle gunpowder label reproduction

 Collection
Accession: 1993-202
Abstract:

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The company was established in 1802 by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and his son Eleuthère Irénée du Pont the company began with the production of gunpowder. This item consists of two printed pieces: a Happy New Year 1993 greeting from Coley (P. Coleman) and Jake (James Coleman) du Pont and a reproduction of an Eagle gun powder label circa 1804.

Dates: 1993

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company gunpowder label

 Collection
Accession: 1967
Abstract:

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The company was established in 1802 by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours(1739-1817) and his son Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771-1834) the company began with the production of gunpowder. This item is a small chromolithograph label for Du Pont smokeless sporting powder.

Dates: 1899

Hagley Yard buildings, DuPont Company offices and laboratory, and powder labels

 Collection
Accession: 1969-011
Abstract:

This small collection of John W. Macklem (1867-1948) contains photographs of structures in the Hagley Yards after they closed in 1921, DuPont Company office staff in Equitable Building, Wilmington, Delaware, and gunpowder labels for A.F. & Co. FF gunpowder and DuPont superfine HFg gun powder.

Dates: circa 1890-1928

John Horn Printing Company sample album of labels and seals

 Collection
Accession: 2004-272
Abstract:

The John Horn Printing Company was a printing firm that specialized in printing labels and ribbons. This sample album contains 131 embossed die-cut labels pasted on thirty-two pages for a variety of products.

Dates: circa 1925

Marguerite du Pont Lee scrapbook

 Collection
Accession: 2572
Abstract:

Marguerite Lammot du Pont Lee (1862-1936) was activist for women's suffrage, child labor, and other social issues. The scrapbook contains religious poems, newspaper clippings, editorial comments, gunpowder labels, as well as a few photographs of the area near the DuPont Powder Yards.

Dates: 1877-1920

Mohawk Liqueur Corporation album

 Collection
Accession: 1995-249
Abstract:

The Detroit Mohawk Liqueur Corporation formed in 1933 at the end of Prohibition and operated through 1966. This album consists of three groups of images. The first group of photographs show a working American liquor company in Detroit, Michigan. The second group consists of different Mohawk bottled liquor products. The third part is eighteen pages of original Mohawk Liqueur labels attached to scrapbook pages.

Dates: 1934