Jamestown Exposition - Garrett's American Wines
date: label: date made
content: 1907
name: label: depicted
content: Pocahontas
label: advertiser
content: Garrett & Company
label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Advertising pin for Garrett & Company made specially for the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 in Norfolk, Virginia. The front features color images of Pocahontas, Virginia Dare and Minnehaha (described as "The Cousins") and a crest for Garrett's American Wines. An image of the Virginia Dare clock atop the Garrett and Co. building in Norfolk is on the back. The back also reads "Take Berkley ferry in Norfolk, Va."
label: Description (Brief)
content: Garrett & Company, established in North Carolina in 1835, was a manufacturer of American wines using the indigenous Scuppernong grape. Virginia Dare was their most popular wine, named for the first child born in America to English settlers. Dare was born on Roanoke Island, which is also home to the Mother Vine, a Scuppernong vine known to be the oldest cultivated grapevine in the world. Pocahontas and Minnehaha were names of two other Garrett & Company wines.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The company moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1903, after the growing temperance movement in the South made North Carolina an unfriendly environment for a wine business. By 1912, the spread of dry counties northward compelled the business to relocate for a final time to New York State. Eventually, nationwide Prohibition forced the company to abandon its wine manufacturing altogether. In the Dry years, the company diversified into Virginia Dare flavoring extracts and the sale of grapes for use in home winemaking.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
label: referenced
content: United States: Virginia, Norfolk
topic: label: Subject
content: Wine
label: related event
content: Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Clothing & Accessories
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.0141
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0141
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
label: Object Name
content: Celluloid Pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm x 4 cm; 7/8 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 11/16 in x 7/8 in x 1/8 in; 4.28625 cm x 2.2225 cm x .3175 cm