Crosley "Pup" point-of-sale display figure
date: label: Date made
content: 1924
name: label: maker
content: Crosley
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Crosley "Pup" point-of-sale display figure, 1924. Donor reported: "... a paper machette [sic] figure used in the very early 1920s to advertise a one tube radio set, with a 'book type' condenser, in the beginnings of AM broadcasting. The character has dummy headphones on its ears, with a paper band between the ear pieces with 'Crosley' printed on it, as a dummy headband for the phones. ... The actual Crosley 'Pup' radio was a box about 5 inches square with a regular 'UV200' composition socket mounted on the top, a 'book' condenser on the outside, on one side and a rheostat on another, with binding posts for the conventional terminals. Box was wood, stained green, and undoubtedly in magazines after 1920, cuts of this set would be found in Crosley advertisements. I have felt, since the release of the 'pup' figure, that it evolved from the Victor Talking Machine's 'His Master's Voice' [ie. "Nipper"] which they used extensively while the Johnson interests were in control, and before the RCA hook-up. This is an opinion of mine, and not stated as a fact however."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0190.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0190.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0190
objectType: label: Object Name
content: counter display
label: Object Name
content: ephemera
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 16.5 cm x 21.5 cm; 8 11/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 8 7/16 in