NEEDLE PACKAGE
YEAR DESCRIPTION ST# C 1970s Lincoln Income Life Insurance Co., Louisville, Kentucky (Completed in 1966), Circa 1970s. A fifteen story office building, at a cost $2.7 million, it was built under the leadership of Lincoln Income president John T. Acree, Jr. Designed by the Taliesin Associated Architects, William Wesley Peters. Peters married Wright's adopted daughter Svetlana in 1935, but lost her and a son eleven years later in a car crash. He became the head of Wright's architectural firm Taliesin Associates after Wright's death in 1959. Peters based the design of the Louisville complex on a unbuilt design Wright created in 1945 for the Sarabhai Calico Mills Store, Ahmadabad, India. In 1986, following Lincoln Income's acquisition by Conceco Insurance of Indianapolis, Kaden Companies Partnership acquired the building and changed its name to the Kaden Tower. Complimentary Needle Pack. "A Leader in the South and Southwest. Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company, Louisville, Kentucky." Contains two sewing needles. 2.25 x 3.75 opens to 4.5 x 3.75. 1846.16.1111
THERMOMETERS
YEAR DESCRIPTION ST# 1950-60's Imperial Hotel Thermometer 1950-60's, 1 5/8 x 9 1/4" (No Date) 1960.02.0303
TISSUE PACKAGE
YEAR DESCRIPTION ST# Circa 1950 Hotel Geneva Kleenex Package. Circa 1950's. "Hermansen’s Hotel Geneva, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In Town, on the lake, Complete Resort Facilities. Phone Chester 8-4431." Inside: "This is not ordinary paper... both sides of this handy Kleenex polishing papers are treated with silicone. Either side will do. There is no waste, because you don’t tear them off - you pull them out, whole, ready to use. Rub your glasses and the dust, dirt and smears disappear... leaving a protective coating of silicone on the lens. Not to be used on plastics. Try one and see... better. Kleenex T.M. Reg. U.S. Pat. Off., I.C.P.Co." 2.6 x 3.3. (See Wright Study on the Hotel Geneva.) 0831.17.0409
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