Yardstick
- Object Name:
- Yardstick
- Object ID:
- 1994.006.49
- Creator:
- _wood Millson Corporation
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Brookline, MA
- Date:
- 1940-1960
- Description:
- Advertising yardstick and oil level measure. Wood. Orange with black ink. Ruled in eighths of an inch. Front reads, "H.E. YOUNG - Range and Fuel Oil - Newport, N.H. - Phone 366"; In tiny letters, "__WOOD MILLSON CORP. / BROOKLINE, MASS". Reverse has oil tank measures, and reads, "When / The / Oil / Reaches / The / Heavy / Black / Line / CALL / At Once / H. E. / YOUNG / Phone 366".
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- W-1.125 L-36 D-0.125 inches
- Provenance:
- Jane Chworowsky (1929-1993), was born in PA and raised in Newport, NH. She attended Plymouth State College, and briefly taught English in Charlestown, NH (1953-55). She ran an antiques business -- Jane's Cabin Antiques -- at her home in Croydon, NH. She bequeathed the contents of her home and business to NHHS.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Jane Lee Chworowsky
- Subjects:
- Advertising, Measures, Measuring, Fuel tanks, Oil
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