Box 1
Container
Contains 24 Results:
Smithware Ashtrays (Product #6301-6304)., Circa 1947.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series 1:
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains collection contains catalogs, price lists, designs, photographs, which constitute the documentary records of Decora Ceramics, and its predecessor, Ylyne Studio, makers of Smithware and Florencita, circa 1947-1953. The designs are watercolors of some of the earliest products in the Smithware and Florencita lines. Other materials include a history of the company, 1946-1953, by co-owner Bill Russell; posed and candid photographs of the owners and employees of Decora...
Dates:
Circa 1947.
Photographs., Circa 1950-1953.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10-16
Identifier: Series 1:
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains collection contains catalogs, price lists, designs, photographs, which constitute the documentary records of Decora Ceramics, and its predecessor, Ylyne Studio, makers of Smithware and Florencita, circa 1947-1953. The designs are watercolors of some of the earliest products in the Smithware and Florencita lines. Other materials include a history of the company, 1946-1953, by co-owner Bill Russell; posed and candid photographs of the owners and employees of Decora...
Dates:
Circa 1950-1953.
Biltmore Trade Show., 1953.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: Series 1:
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains collection contains catalogs, price lists, designs, photographs, which constitute the documentary records of Decora Ceramics, and its predecessor, Ylyne Studio, makers of Smithware and Florencita, circa 1947-1953. The designs are watercolors of some of the earliest products in the Smithware and Florencita lines. Other materials include a history of the company, 1946-1953, by co-owner Bill Russell; posed and candid photographs of the owners and employees of Decora...
Dates:
1953.
Building and Facilities., Circa 1950.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: Series 1:
Scope and Contents
Features photographs of the slip room, the kiln, the store front, the finishing department, and the casting department. Descriptions are written on the reverse of the photographs.
Dates:
Circa 1950.
Negatives., Circa 1950-1953.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: Series 1:
Contents:
Black and white negatives of photographs found in folders 11 (Building and Facilities) and 13 (Owners and Employees).
Dates:
Circa 1950-1953.
Owners and Employees., 1950-1952.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: Series 1:
Contents:
Individual and group photographs of Decora Ceramics owners and employees, 1950-1952. Includes pictures of Smith Russell, Florence Dodge Russell, John Richardson, Bill Ben, Bill and Virginia Russell, Cora Peters, Mary Long. and Eleanor Lorenze. Also features images of the store front, ceramics casting, painting, glazing, mold making, kiln firing, the decorating department, the shipping department, the finishing department. Most photographs have hand written descriptions on the reverse, and...
Dates:
1950-1952.
Product Photographs., Circa 1950.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14-16
Identifier: Series 1:
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains collection contains catalogs, price lists, designs, photographs, which constitute the documentary records of Decora Ceramics, and its predecessor, Ylyne Studio, makers of Smithware and Florencita, circa 1947-1953. The designs are watercolors of some of the earliest products in the Smithware and Florencita lines. Other materials include a history of the company, 1946-1953, by co-owner Bill Russell; posed and candid photographs of the owners and employees of Decora...
Dates:
Circa 1950.
Photographs with Product Numbers., Circa 1950.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: Series 1:
Scope and Contents
Wall plates/plaques, stove savers, decorative wall hanging human faces, ash trays and dishes. Designs feature square dancers, peasants, flowers, fruit, roosters, domestic scenes of a woman ironing, washing dishes, cooking, sweeping, vacuuming, flower picking, grocery shopping and baking, flasks featuring temperance slogans, Victorian scenes of proposal, marriage, and a man tightening a woman's corsette, ash and nut trays with
anthropomorphic nuts and cigarette butts, a bank in the shape of...
Dates:
Circa 1950.
Photographs without Product Numbers., Circa 1950.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: Series 1:
Scope and Contents
Additional photographs of many of the items pictured in the preceding folder. Additional items include covered ashtrays and cigarette storage boxes, wall hanging plates featuring a cowboy lassoing and on a bucking horse, and a Chinese woman and man holding chopsticks and a fan.
Dates:
Circa 1950.
Color Slides / B & W Negative., Circa 1950.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: Series 1:
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains collection contains catalogs, price lists, designs, photographs, which constitute the documentary records of Decora Ceramics, and its predecessor, Ylyne Studio, makers of Smithware and Florencita, circa 1947-1953. The designs are watercolors of some of the earliest products in the Smithware and Florencita lines. Other materials include a history of the company, 1946-1953, by co-owner Bill Russell; posed and candid photographs of the owners and employees of Decora...
Dates:
Circa 1950.