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Charlotte Cramer Sachs Papers,
1905-2002 |
Extent and Forms of Material: 4 cubic feet, (10 boxes, 3
oversized folders)
Creator: Charlotte Cramer Sachs
Abstract: Papers relating to Charlotte Cramer Sachs’s
life and career as an inventor mainly of food and household-related products:
correspondence, photographs, business papers, awards, patents, printed materials,
notes, and miscellany. The collection primarily consists of invention-related
marketing materials including invention samples and prototypes, notes, clippings,
business correspondence, and customer account records.
Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. archivescenter@si.edu
202-633-3270
www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives
Collection Number: AC0878
Processing Note: Processed by Leslie Schuyler, 2005; supervised
by Vanessa Simmons, archivist; finding aid revised by Julie Pepera, February,
2006.
© 2007 by the Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.
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the collection
Conditions Governing Access: The collection
is open for research use.
Physical Access: Researchers must handle unprotected
photographs with gloves.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use: Copyright
held by the Smithsonian Institution. Reproduction permission from
Archives Center: fees for commercial use.
Preferred Citation: [Title and date of item],
Charlotte Cramer Sachs Papers, Archives Center, National Museum
of American History, box number X, folder number XX, digital file
number XXXXXXXX
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Charlotte Cramer Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany on September
27, 1907. Her father, Hans Siegfried Cramer, worked as a businessman
for a successful grain import and export company whose innovative
enterprises included the import of soy beans from Eastern Europe.
In 1903, Hans married Gertrud Bruck, one of the first women to
attain her Abitur, somewhat similar to an American high school
diploma, at age eighteen. Bruck’s formal education ended
there, as her wish to attend university was thwarted by her father
Adalbert, a judge who insisted that she remain at home. The couple
settled in Berlin and had two children—Frederick H., born
March 2, 1906, and Charlotte. From 1913 to 1924 The Cramers lived
in the Berlin Dahlem suburb occupying “Haus Cramer,”
a villa built in 1912 to their specifications by German architect
Hermann Muthesius.
On September 12, 1924, Cramer Sachs married Donald Samuels, a
top executive of the Manhattan Shirt Company and moved to New
York from England where their daughter Eleanor was born on June
11, 1926. Several years later, the couple divorced. Mother and
daughter lived together in London for a few years before moving
back to New York around 1936. Charlotte’s parents relocated
to New York at the same time, after a brief stay in London following
their flight from Berlin after Hitler’s rise to power. In
August 1945, Charlotte Cramer married Alexander Sachs, a leading
economist who had introduced Albert Einstein to President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and acted as advisor to the President.
Although she established her business career in America, Cramer
Sachs retained fond memories of the house and extensive grounds
in Dahlem. In 1977 she composed the song “A Salute to Berlin”
to commemorate the designation of Haus Cramer as one of the city’s
historic landmarks. In 2000, she donated a painted portrait of
herself from the time she had lived in Haus Cramer to the villa’s
new owner, Stanford University. The house retains additional significance
in the context of this collection because Cramer Sachs credited
its wine cellar—unusual in that it provided a separate,
climate controlled environment for red and white wines—as
an inspiration for her line of custom-built, vibration-free wine
storage devices, which would later make Cramer Products Company
a household name among wine connoisseurs.
While she did not attend university her pursuit of learning continued
throughout her life as she studied poetry, musical composition,
and the fine arts. Cramer Sachs often told her niece, Lilian Randall,
that she wished she had received further education, although her
public art exhibitions, poetry awards, numerous original songs,
the establishment of Crambruck Press (her own publishing company),
as well as language fluency in French, English, and German, are
testaments to this inventor’s intellectual curiosity and
development. Evidence of Cramer Sachs’s entrepreneurial
spirit surfaced in her early thirties with her first patent: Improvements
in Combined Key and Flashlight, July 16, 1940, patent number
2,208,498.
In 1940, Cramer Sachs completed courses from the New York Institute
of Dietetics, an effort spurred by the onset of her daughter’s
diabetes. With financial assistance from her parents in the early
1940s, Cramer Sachs developed Joy Products prepared mixes, marking
the beginning of a successful career in inventing. “We were
a pioneer in that field,” said Cramer Sachs of her baking
mix manufacturing company, an operation that consisted of a Bronx
neighborhood factory employing ninety workers. The enterprise
began with corn muffin and popover mixes and expanded into frostings,
puddings, and breads. Newspaper clippings from the time promoted
Joy packaged mixes as ideal gifts for “the boys overseas”
who were in locations where it was “impossible to get together
the makings of a cake.” Cramer Sachs refused an early offer
to sell her mix formulas which were subsequently copied and exploited
by larger, more powerful companies. Joy Products, whose name was
chosen to express the inventor’s delight in creativity,
remained in business as a modest one-woman operation for over
twenty years before succumbing to competition.
Cramer Sachs created another highly successful invention, the
specialty wine cabinet, more than twenty years after she founded
Joy Products. In addition to her memories of visits with her father
to the wine cellar in her family’s German villa, further
motivation came from an interest—though she hardly drank
it at all—in wine and recognition that “standard cooling
and refrigerating appliances [were] too cold for wines.”
Reportedly, Cramer Sachs “started looking for [an appropriate
device] and could not find one,” and thus the impetus to
invent took shape. The “Modern Wine Cellar,” 1966,
was an early example of over twenty wine-related inventions, most
of them storage devices. A mention of her product in Grossman’s
Guide to Wines, Spirits, and Beers, increased demand among
wine lovers and may have prompted Cramer Sachs to state that she
“should find a good market” for her newest invention
line. Testimony from David H. Wollins, a successful New York lawyer
and customer of Cramer Sachs, lauded the cabinet as “the
finest home wine storage system in the world.” She framed
his letter and hung it in her office at 381 South Park Avenue,
her base operation where she employed one or two part-time helpers
from the 1960s until her death in 2004.
The inventor took great joy in music, expressed in her own numerous
compositions and her creation of the games “Domi-Notes”
and “Musicards” in 1961 and 1969. Her fondness for
music also prompted the expansion of her specialty cabinets to
include temperature and humidity controlled devices for storing
a variety of items, most notably the “Well Tempered Cabinet
for Musical Instruments,” which Cramer Sachs first designed
for legendary violinist Isaac Stern. Soon the inventor began producing
similar cabinets for the storage of cigars, furs, and documents.
Described by her niece as “shy with people but a great
admirer of talent, intellect, and humanity,” Cramer Sachs
also “harbored a great love for animals.” She invented
several pet accessories in the early 1950s, including: “Watch-Dog,”
a dog collar with a time piece; “Bonnie Stand,” a
holder fashioned to accommodate disposable food bowls; and “Guidog,”
an early version of a retractable dog leash.
In 1972, Cramer Sachs suffered the loss of her only child, Eleanor,
and in the summer of the next year her husband Alexander passed
away. She continued her “business of creating new product
ideas” for the remainder of her life. The most recent invention
materials represented in the collection are those for the “Conservator”
from 2002, a temperature and humidity controlled device with compartments
to store a variety of items. In her last telephone conversation
with her niece, on March 10, 2004, Cramer Sachs expressed her
hope that she would feel “strong enough to get to the office
the next day or so.” The inventor died the following day
at the age of 96.
Patents issued to Charlotte Cramer Sachs:
United States Patent: 2,208,498, “Combined Key and Flashlight,”
July 16, 1940
United States Patent: 2,509,423, “Wedge Heel Shoe,”
May 30, 1950
United States Patent: 2,808,191, “Lap Tray,” October
1, 1957
United States Patent: Des. 363,618, “Cabinet,” October
31, 1995
The records are divided into two series: Series 1, Creative and
Artistic Papers, 1933-2002 and Series 2, Invention Records, 1905-2002.
Invention Records are further divided into eight subseries: Subseries
1, Cramer Products Company and Affiliate Company Records, 1942-2002;
Subseries 2, Household/Office, 1913-1972; Subseries 3, Food Products,
1940-1969; Subseries 4, Pet Accessories, 1953-1954; Subseries
5, Games, 1961-1969; Subseries 6, Wine-related, 1966-2002; Subseries
7, Temperature and/or Humidity Controlled Devices, 1968-2002;
and Subseries 9, Patent Searches, 1905-1980.
Series 1 documents the inventor’s creativity through her
artistic, literary, and musical records. Also included are awards
and certificates received and materials related to her childhood
home. This series contains few photos of Cramer Sachs herself,
although a print of one of her paintings, “Portrait of a
Lady,” circa 1953, seems to be a self-portrait. There are
no photos of her husband or daughter in the collection. Also missing
is any information related to the inventor’s formal education,
childhood, the circumstances of her departure from Berlin, marriage,
and family life.
Materials in Series 2 constitute the bulk of the collection and
are primarily comprised of marketing ephemera, with very few financial
and production records. This series gives a broad outline of Cramer
Sachs’s many inventions documenting Joy Products and wine-related
inventions in the most depth.
Series 1: Creative and Artistic Papers, 1933-2002
These records include sheet music, songbooks, stories, and poetry
of the inventor’s own creation; photographic prints of her
artwork; art exhibition materials; publishing company (Crambruck
Press) records and published materials; childhood residence (“Haus
Cramer”) materials, and awards and certificates unrelated
to inventions. Artwork and songs make up the bulk of the materials,
and are arranged alphabetically by subject. Records in this series
provide a context for Cramer Sachs’s career as an inventor,
although they do not reveal extensive information regarding her
personal life or history.
Records relating to artwork include press releases, exhibition
photographic prints and negatives, promotional materials, newspaper
clippings, notebooks compiled by Cramer Sachs, as well as donation
records of artworks given by the inventor to The Cathedral Church
of St. John the Divine.
Crambruck Press publishing company is a combined name which incorporates
the inventor’s surname, Cramer and mother’s maiden
name, Bruck. These records include a pre-publication notice and
order form for a Crambruck Press publication, correspondence from
a donor, as well as three Crambruck Press publications: From
Boring Dinosaur to Passionate Computer by Livingston Welch,
1968; Poems by Helen H. Shotwell, 1970; and In Search
of Harmony by Charlo, 1964.
Haus Cramer materials include photographs, newspaper clippings
(many of them in German), correspondence between Cramer Sachs
and Stanford University, and floor plans of the house designed
in 1912 by German architect Hermann Muthesius. A framed black-and-white
photographic print of Haus Cramer is fragile and is housed in
a sink matte, box 9.
Poetry materials, songs, and stories are contained in bound books,
published songbooks, original sheet music, and copyright records
for song words, manuscripts written by Cramer Sachs, as well as
correspondence records related to her writings. The song “With
Love From New York” was used in the marketing of “Joy
New Yorkshire Pudding Mix,” and the records contain a vinyl
recording which doubles as a marketing piece. Allusions to her
husband, Alexander Sachs, and daughter, Eleanor, are found in
some of her songs and stories.
Translation materials are comprised of correspondence (mostly
in German), as well as Cramer Sachs’s complete English translation
of the “Stoffel Flies Across the Ocean” story, originally
written in German by Erika Mann, circa 1932.
Series 2: Invention Records, 1905-2002
Invention Records contain information related to Cramer Sachs
as an inventor and are divided into eight subseries. Materials
include: patent related records; samples and prototypes; marketing
and advertising materials; newspaper and magazine clippings; business
correspondence records; customer account records; Wine Museum
materials; and patent searches. These present a broad overview
of Cramer Sachs’s many inventions, although the majority
of information is concentrated in the Household/Office, Food Products,
and Wine-related series. Records are arranged chronologically
by invention. The final subseries contain patent searches requested
by the inventor.
Subseries 1: Cramer Products
Company and Affiliate Company Records, 1942-2002
Materials include financial records, business correspondence,
company awards and certificates, real estate materials, license
agreements with outside inventors, a promotion prospectus for
the company, and three company stamps (three dimensional). Also
included are records of an invention for which Cramer Sachs
sought copyright, “Orthodontic Device,” 1954, and
those having to do with products distributed—not invented—by
Cramer Products Company, “Forster Longfresh,” 1985.
In addition, there are black-and-white photographic prints of
an office opening which include images of Cramer Sachs in 1967.
These records are arranged chronologically.
Subseries 2: Household/Office
Records, 1913-1972
These records relate to seven different inventions, each with
varying degrees of information. “Combination Key and Flashlight,”
1940 was an improvement on previous patents and therefore consists
of the earlier patent materials (1913 and 1938), Cramer Sachs’s
patent application materials, an official, sealed patent application
(1940), prototype drawings, correspondence records related to
manufacturing and distribution, photographic prints, and a newspaper
article. “Cozi-Crib,” 1958 and 1968, and “Joy
Originals Log Cabin Furniture Set,” 1957, records include
marketing materials whereas “Holdit,” 1972, and
“Party Platter,” 1962, are minimally represented
by one or two photographic prints. “Gaitray” materials
consist of four product samples. Materials for “Miracle
Knee Tray,” circa 1953 include marketing ephemera, a photograph,
and two product samples. A prototype for the “Traypron,”
1954, is also included. These records are arranged alphabetically
by invention name.
Subseries 3: Food Products,
1940-1969
Records in this subseries are mostly comprised of Joy Products
prepared mix materials. Two exceptions are the small, fragile
recipe book, 1940, and the “Caviodka,” 1962, records.
Business correspondence materials contain those from a food
and equipment consultant, the Colgate-Palmolive Company, and
Arthur Colton Company, in addition to those relating to the
incorporation of Cramer Sachs’s “baking mix manufacturing
plant” (1945). There are numerous packaging samples of
various Joy Products, along with handwritten recipes and notes.
An example of early packaging for Joy Products “Early
American Muffin Mix” is in flat box 10. This subseries
also includes customer surveys and comments, marketing plans
and proposals, advertisements, and a marketing portfolio compiled
by the inventor. A scrapbook contains Joy Products newspaper
clippings, advertisements, marketing ephemera, and photographs
of store displays. The scrapbook pages are extremely brittle
and are housed in sleeves. Preservation copies are available
for research use. These records are arranged chronologically.
Subseries 4: Pet Accessories,
1953-1954
This subseries consists of materials relating to three inventions:
“Bonnie Stand,” circa 1953-1954; “Guidog,”
1953; and “Watch-Dog,” 1953. Records include photographic
prints, marketing materials, printing blocks (for “Bonnie
Stand”), as well as a declaration of invention for, and
a product sample of, “Watch-Dog.” These records
are arranged alphabetically by invention name.
Subseries 5: Games, 1961-1969
The inventor created two games: “Domi-Notes,” circa
1961 and “Musicards,” circa 1969. “Domi-Notes”
materials include an order form citing the distributor as G.
Schirmer, Inc. and the addressee as Walter Kane and Son, Inc.,
and three games two in cardboard boxes, (fragile) and one housed
in the original hard plastic case. Records relating to “Musicards”
consist of two game samples including directions for playing.
Subseries 6: Wine-Related, 1966-2002
Wine-related records cover twenty distinct inventions and range
from specialty cabinets—which make-up the bulk of the
materials—to bottle accessories such as the “Bottle
Bib” and the “Cramanna Bottle Ring.” The type
and number of records vary, with the majority concentrated in
the “Cool-Safe,” “Cramarc Multiple Cabinet,”
“Modern Wine Cellar,” and “Well Tempered Systems”
folders. Records in invention-specific folders are arranged
alphabetically and include marketing materials, press releases,
photographic prints and some negatives, cabinet drawings, brochures,
order forms, correspondence, as well as product samples of “Bottle
Bibs.”
Customer account records are arranged alphabetically and consist
of billing statements, invoices, receipts, blueprints, correspondence,
cabinet drawings, customer feedback, bills of lading, and memoranda.
Letters from David H. Wollins laud Cramer Sachs’s cabinet
as “the finest home wine storage system in the world.”
Examples of how the inventor handled an unsatisfied customer
can be found in the Col. Charles Langley folder.
Miscellaneous wine-related materials follow the customer account
records. Included are advertising ephemera, photographs, and
newspaper clippings originally assembled into a binder by Cramer
Sachs. Taped to the inside front cover was a cut-out from a
magazine advertisement which reads, “If you stick with
the herd, you could end up as a lamb chop.” Miscellaneous
materials also include unlabeled cabinet drawings, photographic
prints, competitor materials, photocopies from Grossman’s
Guide to Wines, Spirits, and Beers, as well as marketing
materials and newspaper clippings covering a range of wine-related
inventions. These records are arranged alphabetically by subject.
The final section of the wine-related subseries documents the
development and eventual dissolution of The Wine Museum of New
York. Records are arranged chronologically and include a provisional
charter; an extension of the provisional charter; a newspaper
clipping; outreach correspondence; a binder of wine museum materials
including brochures, event invitations, exhibition opening cards,
board member profiles, a press release, and newspaper clippings;
wine museum exhibition information; and records related to the
dissolution of the museum.
Subseries 7: Temperature and/or Humidity Controlled
Devices, 1968-2002
This subseries documents the inventor’s temperature and/or
humidity controlled inventions that do not relate to wine. Cramer
Sachs created the “Well Tempered Cabinet” for both
wine and musical instruments; it is documented in this and the
wine-related subseries. These records cover eight distinct inventions
which range from specialty cabinets for musical instruments,
furs, and cigars to devices designed to cool the body. Records
relate to marketing, invention-specific business correspondence,
confidential information and competition agreements, and include
photographic negatives and prints. Miscellaneous cabinet drawings,
cigar-related materials, and newspaper articles are also included.
Records are arranged alphabetically by invention name followed
by miscellaneous materials.
Subseries 8: Patent Searches, 1905-1980
Records in this subseries include correspondence as well as
copies of several patented inventions for which Cramer Sachs
requested information.
- Series 1: Creative and Artistic Papers,
1933-2002
- Series 2: Invention Records, 1905-2002
- Subseries 1, Cramer Products Company and Affiliate Company
Records, 1942-2002
Subseries 2, Household/Office, 1913-1972
Subseries 3, Food Products, 1940-1969
Subseries 4, Pet Accessories, 1953-1954
Subseries 5, Games, 1961-1969
Subseries 6, Wine-related, 1966-2002
Subseries 7, Temperature and/or Humidity Controlled Devices,
1968-2002
Subseries 8, Patent Searches, 1905-1980
Some newspaper clippings in German in Haus Cramer Materials.
The papers were donated to the Archives Center at the National
Museum of American History in the spring of 2005 by Lilian Randall
(niece), Erich Cramer (nephew), Aileen Katz (niece), Elisabeth
Weissbach (niece), and John Cramer (nephew).
Erich Cramer was in custody of the records prior to their donation.
The Archives Center added to this collection in April 2007.
Berta Cauthron donated the volume In Search of Harmony
by Charlo, 1964.
Related materials on husband Alexander Sachs’s political
and professional life found in the Papers of Alexander Sachs,
located at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library, 4079 Albany
Post Road, Hyde Park, New York, 12538.
Link to repository:
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
Correspondence between Cramer Sachs and Sam and Ayala Zacks dating
from the 1970s and relating to Zionist art found in the Sam
and Ayala Zacks Fonds located at the Art Gallery of Ontario,
E. P. Taylor Research Library and Archives. 317 Dundas Street
West, Toronto Ontario, Canada M5T 1G4.
Link to Finding Aid: http://www.ago.net/www/resources/research_lib/collections/special/
pdfs/SC042.pdf
From Boring Dinosaur to Passionate Computer by Livingston
Welch, 1968; Poems by Helen H. Shotwell, 1970; and In
Search of Harmony by Charlo, 1964.
Subjects/Topical:
Inventors - 20th Century – United States
Women Inventors – 20th century
Wine Storage
Baked Products
Subjects/Names:
Cramarc
Cramanna
Crambruck Press
Joy Originals
Joy Products
Cramer Products Company
Form/Genre:
Awards
Advertisements
Notes
Correspondence—20th Century
Business Records—20th Century
Patents
Photographs—20th Century
Works of Art
Clippings—20th Century
Patent Applications
Sheet Music
| Box |
Folder |
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| |
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SERIES
1: CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC PAPERS, 1933-2002 |
| 1 |
1 |
Notebook: "Concha Magica:
A Picture Book," circa 1952-1953 |
| 13 |
1 |
"To Eleanor," sheet music,
1952, from "Concha Magica: A Picture Book," box
1, folder 1 |
| 1 |
2 |
Notebook: Exhibit at Crespi Gallery,
"Unusual Pieces of Art," circa 1953 |
| |
3 |
Art Exhibition records, 1965-1969 |
| 13 |
2 |
"The Magic World of Charlo,"
exhibition promotion pieces, 1969, from Art Exhibition records,
box 1, folder 3 |
| 1 |
4 |
Donation of Artwork to St. John
the Divine, 1978 |
| |
5 |
Unlabeled photographic prints of
artworks, undated |
| |
6 |
New York Institute of Dietetics
Bulletin of Information and Announcement of Courses 1939,
and Commencement Exercises program 1939-1940 |
| |
7 |
Schillinger System of Musical Composition,
New York University certificate, 1960 |
| |
8 |
Contemporary Poetry Workshop certificate,
1980 |
| |
9 |
Correspondence, 1954-1989 |
| |
10 |
Crambruck Press / Foundation records,
1981-1999 |
| |
11 |
Crambruck Press In Search of
Harmony by Charlo, 1964 |
| |
12 |
Crambruck Press From Boring
Dinosaur to Passionate Computer by Livingston Welch,
1968 |
| |
13 |
Crambruck Press Poems
by Helen H. Shotwell, 1970 |
| |
14 |
Haus Cramer records, 1977-2002 |
| 10 |
1 |
Haus Cramer (fragile framed photograph),
undated |
| 1 |
15 |
Poetry materials, 1980-1995 |
| |
16 |
"The Alphabet Song,"
songbook, 1958 |
| 9 |
1 |
"The Alphabet Song,"
sheet music, 1959 |
| 1 |
17 |
"The Alphabet Song,"
loose pages of songbook, 1969 |
| 2 |
1 |
"The Alphabet Song by Carlo
Crambrook," songbook, circa 1969 |
| |
2 |
"A Bouquet for You,"
songbook, 1965 |
| |
3 |
"Christmas," sheet music,
1967 |
| |
4 |
"Don't Want to Know,"
copyright for song words, undated |
| |
5 |
"The Loveliest Number is Two,"
songbook, 1964 |
| |
6 |
"A Salute to Berlin,"
sheet music, 1977 |
| |
7 |
"A Sheaf of Songs," loose
pages of songbook, 1969 |
| |
8 |
"A Sheaf of Songs," leather
folder for songbook, 1969 |
| |
9 |
"The Spark of Life, Seven
Songs," songbook, 1967 |
| |
10 |
"Thoughts," songbook,
1965 |
| 13 |
1 |
"To Eleanor," sheet music
from "Concha Magica: A Picture Book," 1952 |
| 2 |
11 |
"Voices of the Wind,"
sheet music, 1966 |
| |
12 |
"With Love from New York,"
song materials, 1959-1992 |
| |
13 |
"For Alexander," story,
no date |
| |
14 |
"My Life With Charlotte"
and "My Trip Abroad," story manuscripts, 1965 |
| |
15 |
Translation materials, 1933 |
| |
16 |
Miscellaneous materials, New
York Times Cooking School newspaper clipping, 1976 |
| |
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SERIES
2: INVENTION RECORDS, 1905-2002 |
| |
|
Subseries 1: Cramer Products
Company and Affiliate Company Records, 1942-2002 |
| |
17 |
Real Estate materials, 1943-1967 |
| |
18 |
Conducting Business certificate,
1944 |
| |
19 |
Office records, 1945-2002 |
| |
20 |
Monthly Operating Figures, 1950 |
| |
21 |
Business correspondence, 1950-2000 |
| |
22 |
Free Enterprise Award, photograph
and press release, circa 1952 |
| 9 |
2 |
Free Enterprise Award, circa 1952 |
| 2 |
23 |
License agreement (unsigned) "Orthodontic
Device," 1954 |
| 3 |
1 |
Photographic prints of office opening,
1967 |
| |
2 |
"Forster Longfresh by Swiss
Precision" records, 1985 |
| 10 |
2 |
"Who's Who in US Executives,"
plaque, 1990 |
| 3 |
3 |
Government Parts Pricing Department,
price quote, 2002 |
| |
4 |
American Legion Certificate of
Appreciation, undated |
| |
5 |
Prospectus for Promotion of Cramer
Products, undated |
| 7 |
1 |
Cramer Products Company (2), Joy
Originals (1) stamps, undated |
| |
|
Subseries 2: Household/Office,
1913-1972 |
| 4 |
1 |
"Combination Key and Flashlight,"
early patent materials, 1913-1938 |
| 13 |
6 |
"Combination Key and Flashlight,"
original patent drawing, 1940 |
| 4 |
2 |
"Combination Key and Flashlight,"
business correspondence, 1940 |
| |
3 |
"Combination Key and Flashlight,"
patent materials, 1940-1945 |
| 3 |
6 |
"Combination Key and Flashlight,"
newspaper clipping, 1941 |
| |
7 |
"COZI-CRIB," materials,
1958-1968 |
| 13 |
10 |
"Gaitray," sample trays
(4), undated |
| 3 |
8 |
"Holdit," materials,
1972 |
| |
9 |
"Joy Originals Log Cabin Furniture
Set," materials, 1957 |
| |
10 |
"Miracle Knee Tray,"
materials, 1953 |
| 13 |
11 |
"Miracle Knee Tray,"
sample tray, circa 1953 |
| |
O/S Folder 3 |
"Miracle Knee Tray,"
sample tray, circa 1953 |
| 3 |
11 |
"Party Platter," photographic
prints, 1962 |
| 13 |
12 |
"Traypron," prototype,
1954 |
| |
|
Subseries 3: Food Products,
1940-1969 |
| 3 |
12 |
Recipe book, 1940 |
| |
O/S Folder 2 |
"Hopper," blueprint,
"Joy Products mixer used for making Joy Products,"
circa 1940 |
| 3 |
13 |
Joy Products business correspondence,
1940-1961 |
| |
14 |
Joy Products prepared mix packaging,
1941-1957 |
| 11 |
1 |
Joy Products Early American Muffin
Mix package, circa 1940s-1950s |
| 3 |
15 |
Joy Products mix recipes/notes,
1944-1953 |
| |
16 |
Joy Products marketing and advertising
materials, 1944-1963 |
| 13 |
5 |
"Joy Fully Prepared Cake and
Muffin Mix," advertising mock-up, circa 1940s |
| 3 |
17 |
Joy Products marketing portfolio,
1946-1948 |
| 9 |
3 |
Betty Crocker Angel Food Cake Mix
packet, undated, from Joy Products marketing portfolio, box
3, folder 17 |
| 13 |
3 |
"WJZ BMD Daytime Audience
Map," 1946, from Joy Products marketing portfolio, box
3, folder 17 |
| 5 |
1 |
Joy Products newspaper clipping,
1945 |
| 9 |
4 |
Joy Products Scrapbook pages (photocopies),
1944-1945 |
| |
5 |
Joy Products Scrapbook pages (fragile
originals), 1944-1945 |
| |
6 |
Joy Products Scrapbook, loose items
found in back, 1946-1977 |
| 13 |
9 |
Joy Products advertisement, "Read
What Leading Food Editors Say About Joy Popover Mix,"
undated, from the Joy Products Scrapbook, loose items found
in back, 1946-1977 |
| |
13 |
Newspaper clipping, "Housewife
Finds Time for Two Other Careers," 1961, From Joy Products
scrapbook, loose items found in back, 1946-1977 |
| 9 |
7 |
Joy Product scrapbook, front and
back covers, 1944-1977 |
| 5 |
2 |
"Caviodka" materials,
1962 |
| |
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Subseries 4: Pet Accessories,
1953-1954 |
| |
3 |
"Bonnie Stand," photographic
print, circa 1953-1954 |
| 10 |
3 |
"Bonnie Stand," printing
blocks (2), 1954 |
| 5 |
4 |
"Guidog," photographic
prints, 1953 |
| |
5 |
"Watch-Dog," materials,
1953 |
| 8 |
1 |
"Watch-Dog," sample watch,
circa 1953 |
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Subseries 5: Games, 1961-1969 |
| 5 |
6 |
"Domi-Notes" materials,
circa 1961 |
| 8 |
2 |
"Domi-Notes" game, 1961 |
| 12 |
1 |
"Domi-Notes" game, 1961 |
| |
2 |
"Domi-Notes" game, 1961 |
| 5 |
7 |
"Musicards" materials,
1969 |
| 8 |
2 |
"Musicards" games (2),
circa 1969 |
| |
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Subseries 6: Wine-Related,
1966-2002 |
| 5 |
8 |
"And * Or," records,
1991-1992 |
| |
9 |
"Bottle Bib" materials,
1975 |
| |
10 |
"Catch-All" records,
1970 |
| |
11 |
"Chocolate Wine" records,
1971 |
| |
12 |
"Cool * Safe" materials,
1968 |
| |
13 |
"Cool = Safe" records,
1987-1988 |
| |
14 |
"Cramanna Bottle Ring"
materials, 1970 |
| |
15 |
"Cramanna Cool-Kit" records,
1967 |
| |
16 |
"Cramanna Wine-Safe"
records, 1974 |
| |
17 |
"Cramarc Cooling Cabinet"
records, 1985 |
| |
18 |
"Cramarc Multiple Cabinet"
records, 1994 |
| |
19 |
"Future Cool" records,
undated |
| |
20 |
"Modern Wine Cellar"
records, 1966-1974 |
| |
21 |
"Stack-Rack" records,
1958 |
| |
22 |
"Vine-Yard" records,
1974 |
| |
23 |
"Well Tempered Systems"
records, 1968-2001 |
| |
24 |
"The Wine Cage" records,
1976-1978 |
| 13 |
7 |
"The Wine Cage" promotional
materials, 1974 |
| 5 |
25 |
"Wine Condo" records,
1987 |
| |
26 |
"Wine Library" records,
1971 |
| |
27 |
"Wine Steward" records,
1977 |
| |
28 |
"Wine Wheel" records,
1970 |
| |
O/S Folder 1 |
Bruck, Frederick, architect, "Refrigerated
Cabinet," blueprint, 1965 |
| 5 |
29 |
Byun, Sung account records, 1999 |
| |
30 |
Cramer, David account records,
1999 |
| |
31 |
Elm City Cabinetry records, 1986 |
| |
O/S Folder 1 |
Filmon Realty, Dining Room Cabinet
blueprint, 1980 |
| 5 |
32 |
Gray, Gordon account records, 1984-1996 |
| |
33 |
Hall, Kevin account records, 1999 |
| |
34 |
La Colonna account records, 1984 |
| |
35 |
LaFollette Designs, Inc. account
records, 1983 |
| |
36 |
Lane account records, 1983 |
| |
37 |
Jeremy P. Lang & Associates account
records, 1981-1984 |
| |
38 |
Langley, Col. Charles account records,
1976-1979 |
| |
O/S Folder 1 |
Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. Garrit, "Custom
Wine Cooler Detail," blueprints (2), 1972 |
| 5 |
39 |
Lessen (Lassen), Sidney W. account
records, 1977-1983 |
| |
40 |
Lieberman account records, 1988 |
| |
41 |
Lindner account records, 1987 |
| |
42 |
Lipton, Thomas J. account records,
1981-2001 |
| |
43 |
Parrish, Karl account records,
1982 |
| |
44 |
Parsons, Robert W. account records,
1983 |
| |
45 |
Peterson, Joseph C. account records,
1986 |
| |
46 |
Philip Morris Management Corp.
records, 2002 |
| |
O/S Folder 2 |
Pressman, G., "Basement Plan"
blueprint, undated |
| 5 |
47 |
Siegel, Ann account records, 1980-1990 |
| |
48 |
Steinschraber, James I. account
records, 2003 |
| |
49 |
Wilpon, Fred account records, 1985-1986 |
| |
50 |
Wollins, David H. correspondence/testimonial,
1986, 1997 |
| 6 |
1 |
Miscellaneous wine-related materials
binder compiled by Charlotte Cramer Sachs, 1968-1995 |
| |
2 |
Miscellaneous wine-related cabinet
drawings, undated |
| |
3 |
Miscellaneous wine-related competitor
materials, 1991-2000 |
| |
4 |
Miscellaneous wine-related, Grossman's
Guide to Wines, Spirits, and Beers photocopies, undated |
| |
5 |
Miscellaneous wine-related marketing
materials, 1970-1994 |
| |
6 |
Miscellaneous wine-related newspaper
and magazine articles, 1966-1986 |
| |
7 |
Miscellaneous wine-related unlabeled
photographs, undated |
| |
8 |
Wine Museum binder compiled by
Charlotte Cramer Sachs, 1976-1991 |
| |
9 |
Wine Museum Provisional Charter,
1982 |
| |
10 |
Wine Museum correspondence, 1982 |
| |
11 |
Wine Museum newspaper clipping,
1985 |
| 13 |
8 |
Wine Museum, extension of provisional
charter, 1986 |
| 6 |
12 |
Wine Museum exhibit: "The
Art of Wine," 1989 |
| |
13 |
Wine Museum dissolution records,
1993 |
| |
|
Subseries 7: Temperature
And/Or Humidity Controlled Devices, 1968-2002 |
| |
14 |
"Conservator" records,
2002 |
| |
15 |
"Coolido," materials,
1977 |
| |
16 |
"Cooling Backpack," records,
1996-2002 |
| |
17 |
"Cooloff" materials,
1970-1972 |
| |
18 |
"Fur Vault" materials,
1983 |
| |
19 |
"Soothit" materials,
1970 |
| |
20 |
"Temperate Level Conservator"
materials, 1981 |
| |
21 |
"Well Tempered Cabinet"
materials (non-wine), 1968-1970 |
| |
22 |
Miscellaneous cabinet drawings,
undated |
| |
23 |
Miscellaneous, cigar cabinet materials,
1984 |
| |
24 |
Miscellaneous, Nat Sherman
Magazine, circa 1987 |
| |
25 |
Miscellaneous newspaper articles,
1967-1977 |
| |
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Subseries 8: Patent Searches,
1905-1980 |
| |
26 |
Nail Polish, Quick Freezing Flowers,
Personal Cooling Device searches, 1933-1980 |
| |
27 |
Fire Proofing, High Frequency Cooking
Pots, and Water Meter searches, 1905-1945 |
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