The Berg Company
date: label: date made
content: 1906
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A promotional notebook with a celluloid cover. Distributed by retailer John M. Crouse of Finesville, N.J., it advertises products of the Berg Company of Philadelphia, Pa. The pages contain calendars, blank memo pages, and a wide range of information on Berg's products.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The front shows the image of a man wearing a sandwich board advertising "Berg's Pure Ingredient Guanos and Bone Manures."
label: Description (Brief)
content: The advertisment contains a picture of a bull with the caption, "From the farm thou art, Unto the farm thou shalt return." It is a play on the biblical verse, Genesis 3:19: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Advertising
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.0911
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0911
objectType: label: Object Name
content: notebook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (covers material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (pages material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 6.5 cm x .5 cm; 4 3/4 in x 2 9/16 in x 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; .79375 cm x 6.35 cm x 12.065 cm