Food Restaurant Club Hotel Advertising Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a delicate and beautiful Welch's Grape Juice souvenir glass form the company's pavilion at the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition. The Expo was held in Portland, Oregon to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the duo's historic westward...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s or 1930s room key fob or tag for the Alexander Young Hotel in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (T.H.). The Young Hotel was a grand affair, built in 1902 by a Scotsman of the same name. The hotel was used by the military...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s pin for the Yellowstone Park Hotels. Many hotels were set up within Yellowstone, the world's first national park, which was christened in 187The design of the pin, which features a black bear within a blue circle, looks to...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s promotional pin for Golden Shred, a preserve made in the United Kingdom by James Robertson & Sons. The Golden Shred mascot debuted around the turn of the twentieth century, and was named the "Gollywog" (later just...

ARTIFACT: This is a gorgeously colored trolley card from the 1930s advertising Sunkist lemons from California. Trolley cards were used as a means of advertising mostly in San Francisco in the 1920s and 1930s. This card shows lemons from all angles...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare first type Sunkist juice reamer from the 1920s. The round well where the juice is collected reads SUNKIST ORANGES-LEMONS and there is a handle and a spout on either side of the main body. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa 1890s embossed twelve-sided bottle for A. L. Murdock's Liquid Food with its original cork inside. Murdock's was used among other applications for feeding patient prior to surgery. The bottle reads A. L. MURDOCK LIQUID...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful twenty-five years of service pin for Nestles Chocolate. The pin reads NESTLE'S QUARTER CENTURY CLUB and has a great scene in relief at center of a mother bird feeding her nestlings. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s...

ARTIFACT: This is a small drinking glass from Yoken's, a locally famous Portsmouth, New Hampshire restaurant and gift shop started in 194Yoken's had an animated sign showing a whale who spouted water and slapped his tail to draw people inside. The glass...

ARTIFACT: This is a fabulous 1950s dinner plate from the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel in New Castle, New Hampshire. The Wentworth is a resort hotel made famous for being the spot where the Russian and Japanese signers of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty lodged...

ARTIFACT: This is a cigar/cigarette ashtray from the Coral Island Hotel in Bermuda. The hotel was formerly the Frascati and was later torn down to make way for condominiums. The ashtray is from the 1950s and is made by Bauscher Weiden. VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a Yoken's Restaurant side plate from just after their opening in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 194Yoken's was a locally famous restaurant and gift shop with an animated sign showing a whale who spouted water and slapped his tail to draw...