Travel & Location / Destination Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a miniature sterling New York City patrolman badge. The badge shows the New York City seal at center (a colonist and a Native American greeting one another) and reads CITY OF NEW YORK POLICE 1932. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: 1-1/16"...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s-1940s special officer (security) badge for Madison Square Garden in New York City. This badge dates to the third incarnation of the Garden, which existed from 1925 until 1968, when it was rebuilt. It was the first Garden...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1930s or 1940s Supervisor of Attendance (truant officer) badge from the Lowell Public Schools District of Lowell, Massachusetts. The oval badge is nicely engraved with a decorative detail at center. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s-1940s...

ARTIFACT: This is a photograph of a policeman from Portsmouth, New Hampshire who served in the 1890s. He is shown in a 3/4 view and dressed in full uniform, complete with nightstick. VINTAGE: Circa 1890s. SIZE: 6-1/2" height and 4-1/4" width...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare vase from the famous Rex Hotel in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam). Originally an automobile garage built during the late 1920s, the building began its conversion into a luxury hotel complex in 195Four hundred United...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1960s ashtray from the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon. Now called the Hotel Continental of Ho Chi Minh City, the hotel was originally built in 1880 under French Colonial rule of Vietnam. Its Old World ambiance...

ARTIFACT: This is a great circa early 1960s ashtray from the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon. Now called the Hotel Continental of Ho Chi Minh City, the hotel was originally built in 1880 under French Colonial rule of Vietnam. Its Old World ambiance...

ARTIFACT: This is a small informational brochure for the Hamilton Hotel in Bermuda. It looks as though it is/was a large summer resort. The pamphlet tells briefly of the charms of Bermuda and then goes on to tell the history of the Hamilton which the...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s advertising thermometer for Frank Morris Harley Davidson Motorcycles of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (the "Home of Frank's Riders"). The thermometer is meant to be mounted on a wall, is framed in brass and shows a peaceful mountain...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1939 Work Projects Administration worker badge for the crew at North Beach Airport in New York. The crew undertook the modernization of the small airport, Christened as the Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, the North Beach Airport...

ARTIFACT: This is a wonderful framed circa 1920s photograph of a biplane with the tail numbers NC704N: this particular craft was a Spartan C3-16The photo is from Framingham, Massachusetts and was hand-tinted in soft pastel hues. The frame is nicely...

ARTIFACT: This is a great framed 1923 photograph of the football team for Portsmouth High School of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The photo shows the eleven players and their coach posed in front of the goalpost with a caption written in white across the...