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1930 C-1950 c
GUSN-10129
Cardboard disc with tab, printed on top side in red with "Hoodsie" in central red band; black and white photo of Myrna Loy on back
favors
packaging
cardboard
printing (process)
Transfer Printed
Cardboard
CUP, FAVOR
Label "Waiting for a Gallery": A 1995 gift of over four hundred Hood Milk Company items documents not only the history of an important New England company but also its impact on people's lives. Promotional items like Hoodsie paper ice cream lids, glass cottage cheese containers, and Currier & Ives drinking glasses, were intended to encourage brand loyalty and quickly became collectibles.
Printed on 1) top 2) back, around photo: 1) Not less than 3 fld. oz./ Good for/ young and old/ Hoodsie/ Dixies [over] Reg. U.S. Pat. Off./ Hood's ice cream 2) Myrna Loy [below] *playing in* ""The Great Ziegfeld""* A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
Unknown
2.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Elizabeth McAfoose and Emily C. Hood
1995.262.4
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