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Drinking cups

Drinking cups
Drinking cups
Object name 
Drinking cups
Date 
1900
Medium 
Paper
Dimensions 
5 x 4 x 1/2 in.
Description 
A cardboard box of disposable paper drinking cups. The box is white, printed in red and blue with a woman holding a cup marked "Safeguard Your Health" surrounded by the words "Columbian Individual Drinking Cup/ 25". On the sides partially readable "Public Drinking Cups Spread Disease. Health Authorities Everywhere[?] Recommend Sanitary Paper Cups". An applied paper label on the front reads Charles S. Pratt/ New And Old Books/ 161 6TH Ave., N.Y./ Any Book You Want".
Credit Line 
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number 
2002.1.3214
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.