Young's Funeral Home Folding Paper Fan

Name/Title

Young's Funeral Home Folding Paper Fan

Entry/Object ID

2004.032.001

Description

Four-part folding paper fan from Young's Funeral Home at 145 Main St, Millburn. The bottom piece serves to hold the fan and has the rivets that keep all the pieces together. The outside two pieces fold behind the middles top piece. When the three top pieces are open, the fan displays a pastoral/autumnal wooded landscape with a cottage and dirt road. When you turn over the open fan, the bottom folding piece has the follwoing information printed on it: Young's Funeral Home; Alfred L. Young, Director; 145 Main Street, Millburn, N.J.; Telephone Millburn 6-0406; (Geiger Bros., Newark, N.J.). Alfred Young seems to appear in MIllburn first in the 1918 business directory. Paper is badly stained and the piece with the printing is quite dirty.

Acquisition

Accession

2004.032

Source or Donor

Lynne Ranieri

Dimensions

Height

10-1/2 in

Width

7 in