C. H. Randall-Branded Bamboo Calendar [1930s approx.]
Utilitarian Object
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OBJ.N.2022.35Description
A wall hanging made of thin bamboo slats, printed with a generic, uncredited image of a flower-filled boat and person standing on the nearby jetty who appears to be wearing a kimono. Beneath this image there's a printed advertisement and torn paper where a calendar would have been attached. The ad reads, "Drink More Milk - Milk is Your Complete Food" and "C. H. Randall, Pure Jersey Milk and Cream, From Tuberculin Tested Herds, Telephone 188-11, Stillwater, Maine."No information could be found about C. H. Randall. This object is estimated to date from the 1930s because alphanumeric phone numbers, with two letters representing the nearest phone exchange followed by 5 unique numbers, were standard from approximately 1930. Testing of cattle for TB was commercially possible from 1891 and widespread globally from the turn of the 20th century. It was not unusual to still advertise tuberculin-tested milk in the 1930s. Bamboo scroll, or "roll-up" calendars of this type are still produced and examples from the 1930s exist.
Object's connection to Old Town, Maine unclear.