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Barbara Fritchie, Winfield Scott Schley...what wasn't their name slapped on?
This is a catch-all for everything I come across and interesting info connected to each object. Also including The Great Frederick Fair souvenirs.
(Updated regularly. Click each image for a larger pop-up.)
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
(October 9, 1839 - October 2, 1911)
Born at Richfield, just past exit 18 on Route 15 North. Schley became infamous as the commander of the "Flying Squadron" during the Spanish-American War at the Battle of Santiago.
Tea Cup with Saucer
Produced by Wheelock in Dresden, Germany.
Cup reads:
Admiral Schley
Born 1839
Frederick, Md
Stick Pin Souvenir
The National Peace Jubilee was held in Washington, D.C. on May 23-25, 1899, to celebrate the reestablishment of peace between Spain and the United States.
Manufactured by the Baltimore Badge & Novelty Company, designers of silk badges, enamel buttons, medallions, & advertising novelties. They quickly became the largest porcelain enamel manufacturing company of its kind, and, to note, produced the first official state-issued license plates for automobiles for Massachusetts in 1903.
Stereograph - Commodore Winfield Scott Schley U.S.N.
Publisher: Littleton View Co., Littleton, New Hampshire
Sold By: Underwood & Underwood, 1898
According to the Smithsonian's "Guide to the Underwood & Underwood
Glass Stereograph Collection", Underwood & Underwood was established at Ottawa, Kansas, by the young brothers Elmer and Bert Underwood
in 1882. They initially operated as distributors for eastern photographers' stereographs to new markets in the West."
After opening a branch office in Baltimore in 1887, the company began recruiting college students to work as salesmen during summer months (a new practice for the growing stereoscope industry). One of their salesmen, B. L. Singley, soon went on to form the Keystone View Company of Meadville, PA, which became Underwood & Underwood's chief competitor and imitator. One of his Schley stereoscopes appears below.
Forty-Five Years Under The Flag by Winfield Scott Schley (1904)
Schley recounts the events of his long naval career.
The book begins with his birth in Frederick, Maryland. Read a scan of the book here.
Souvenir Spoon
This National Peace Jubilee was held city-wide in Chicago, October 16-22, 1899.
According to the program, the event was attended by President William McKinley and former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson.
Numerous speakers included Booker T. Washington. Admiral Schley toasted the Navy at a banquet given for the President and distinguished guests.
Stereograph - Commodore Winfield Scott Schley U.S.N.
Manufactured & Published by: Keystone View Co., Littleton, New Hampshire
By B. L. Singley, 1898
Trade Card - Fairbank's Fairy Soap
Trade card advertising "The soap of the century."
The N.K. Fairbank Co. of Chicago manufactured soap as well as animal and baking products.
In the late 1800s, Fairy Soap, their popular floating white soap, competed with Procter & Gamble's Ivory soap. Around 1930, P&G acquired the company that then owned Fairy Soap. Fairy has become one of their most popular laundry and dishwashing brands across the globe, similar to Dawn in the U.S.
1898 Chicago Peace Jubilee Medal
From the Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal:
Shown is the Admiral George Dewey Medal. The face includes Admiral Dewey, Rear Admirals Sampson and Schley, and General Shafter. On the reverse is the McKinley Arch.
16 arches were erected. Admiral Schley's stood at Dearborn street, at the corner Madison street. The Rear Admiral Schley, Rear Admiral Sampson, and Evans arches all represented different scenes of the naval victory at Santiago.
Stereograph - Cruiser Brooklyn, Schley's Flagship
Published by: International View Co., Decatur, Ill.
Under the command of Schley, the country's 3rd armored cruiser, the USS Brooklyn, was part of the Navy's Flying Squadron during the Spanish-American War.
Its first assignment after its commission in 1896 was a special cruise to Britain with representatives of the U.S. for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Trade Card - Navy Candy
Trade card from the "Navy Candy" series (E2), issued in 1910.
Baltimore's Lauder & Suter Company issued collectible trading cards with their candy products. This non-sport card series featured 24 U.S. Navy figures.
They were located on Block Street, near the base of Caroline Street in Fells Point. (Now Point Street.)
Trade Card - The Horrors of War
GUM Inc. spreads the ideals of peace to American school children.
In the early 1930s, Philadelphia bubble gum entrepreneur Warren Bowman started adding trading cards to his 1 cent gum packets manufactured in Japan. These 240 cards depicted images of the brutalities of war in an effort to teach the ideal of peace to American children. These cards were incredibly popular, but caused quite a stir because of the graphic nature of the drawings. Eventually, because of the focus on the Japanese military, the Japanese government declared Bowman “an enemy of Japan” and ordered him to close his gum factories in their country.
In 2011, Famous Fabrics Ink did a limited reissue of these popular collector cards, including these cut signature cards.