c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug antique glass negative The larger about 1 7/8"

The larger about 1 7/8" x 3/4" x 5/16"

As darning was a skill taught to young women of all classes--including in orphanages

Who is this marvelous fantastical beast that lives on the top of this vintage lacquer box

the other from the 1983 Christopher Street Liberation Day

c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug antique glass negative The larger about 1 7/8"In recent years we've see a renewed espousing of the benefits of beef tea or bone broth, but Armour's Chicago was making it and distributing it widely at the very beginning of the 1900s in ohotos I've including an ad for it c. 1902. Philip D. Armour, a native of New York State, made a substantial fortune in the pork packing business in Milwaukee in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, then In 1875 moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co.