Fairbanks' standard scales
Centennial Exhibition
Item Info
Item No: c110130
Title: Fairbanks' standard scales
Additional Title: [Francis Joseph]
Series:
Tradecard
Media Type: Tradecards
Notes: "Decoration of the Imperial Order of Francis Joseph conferred upon the inventor of the Fairbanks' scales.
Notes: "Highest prize London 1851. Highest prize Paris 1867. Knightly Cross, Vienna, 1873."
Notes: 1 trade card : 13 x 16 cm.
Notes: Exhibit title: Fairbanks & Ewing, 715 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Exhibit #868, Machinery Hall, Bldg. #2.
Notes: Includes list of principal warehouses.
Notes: Trade card for E. & T. Fairbanks with Francis Joseph award (medal with cross). Verso has two illustrations: two men using scales in 1776 and: woman and young boy using Fairbanks scale in 1876. Recto: Red, yellow and black on white card. Verso: chromolithograph on white card.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1314944
Call Number: c110130
Subjects
- Advertising
- Boys
- C.E. Wemple & Co.
- Centennial Exhibition
- Chromolithographs
- Crosses
- E. & T. Fairbanks & Co.
- Imperial Order of Franz Joseph
- Machinery Hall
- Medals
- Men
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Trade cards
- Weights & measures
- Women
- People
- Scales (Weighing instruments)
- Saint Johnsbury, Vermont
- Awards
- Vienna, Austria
- Austria
- Vermont
Fairbanks' standard scales
Fairbanks' standard scales