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Framed presentation check from Maxwell House Coffee to the Babe Ruth League, Hoboken for $15,000 for 1989 baseball season.
Object/Artifact
Framed hand-made presentation check from Maxwell House Coffee, Hoboken Division, to the Babe Ruth League, Hoboken for $15,000 for 1989 baseball season. Hand-lettered with marker pens around a center painted illustration of a coffee bean in a baseball uniform holding a bat and wearing a cap with "MAX" insignia. In the lower right corner is a pen-and-ink drawing of a baseball stadium in the perspective shape of an ocean liner. 60"w x 27"h in silver metal section frame, no glass.
The check was given by Frank Meegan of Maxwell House. This donation was rather large and probably one of the last given by the plant.
2001.047.0001
2001.047
Staff
Field Collection
Museum Collection.
1989
Early Date: 1989
27 in
60 in
Good
Display Value: Excellent Notes: Artist not known Status: OK