Name/Title
Photograph, Negative, Glass PlateEntry/Object ID
N.34.97.126Description
Shumkessel. Material: glass. Size: 5" x 7". Description: glass plate image of an outdoor winter scene with a baby in a wooden box mounted to metal sled base (metal runners or cutters); baby identified as Miss Helen Shumkessel in 1907; wooden box has print on side: "Old Dutch, Chases Dirt, Spick and Span, The Cudahy Packing Co., U.S.A."Context
Donated by Sheldon Johnson, son of Everett and Ruth Johnson (their estate). Glass plate negative scanned by Michael Linnihan June 2014. Cudahy Packing Company was an American meat packing company established in 1887 as the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company and incorporated in Maine in 1915. The Cudahy meatpacking business was acquired by Bar-S Foods Company in 1981. In 1905, Cudahy Packing Company introduced Old Dutch Cleanser.Lexicon
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Object Name
Photograph, Negative, Glass PlateCreate Date
February 15, 2019Update Date
September 19, 2024