Food Guard and Plate (2)
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on each food guard reads “J. A. PRESTON CORP. / 71 FIFTH AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10003 / 212 ALgonguin 5-8484.”
label: Description
content: Joseph Pressburger and Trude Wertheimer Pressburger were Jews from Stuttgart, Germany, who narrowly escaped the Holocaust. Arriving at Ellis Island in April 1941, they settled in New York City and, in 1945, changed their name to Preston. In 1950, using restitution money from the German government, they started the J.A. Preston Corporation, a firm that sold rehabilitation equipment to doctors' offices and hospitals. Kenneth Preston took charge of business after his father died in 1961 and sold it in 1988. Under his leadership, the firm grew from a small family business to an international sales and manufacturing company with partnerships in Canada, Japan, and Korea.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Jews
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the J.A. Preston Corporation, through Thomas E. Mitchell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0750.02
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0750.02a
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0750.02b
label: accession number
content: 1984.0750
objectType: label: Object Name
content: food guard and plate set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 10 in x 10 in x 19.5 cm; 5.715 cm x 25.4 cm x 25.4 cm x 7 11/16 in