Ruler
- Title:
- White Mountain Refrigerators
- Object Name:
- Ruler
- Object ID:
- 1995.095
- Date:
- 1894-1924
- Description:
- Ruler, six-inch. Wood, with metal strip. Front marked in 1" increments, with "WHITE MOUNTAIN REFRIGERATORS" below. Back reads, "Genuine Quarried / Stone Lined / Refrigerators", "Manufactured only by / MAINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY / NASHUA, New Hampshire", and "One-Piece Seamless / Porcelain Lined / Refrigerators".
- Material:
- Wood
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-0.1 L-6 D-0.9 inches
- Provenance:
- The Maine Manufacturing Company was started in 1874 in Fairfield, ME, as a woodworking business. The company started making "Maine" and "White Mountain" refrigerators in 1887. It moved to Nashua, NH, in 1894.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Philip R. Godbout
- Subjects:
- Advertising, Measuring, Refrigerators, Rulers
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