Early Salesman Sample Cable Car Grip by Chicago Model Works button and the backmost panel has

and the backmost panel has sustained a crack

(likely) The Crane Company - Chicago

This sign advertises a line of beer brewed by Jacob Ruppert's New York-based brewing company

instructional classrooms

10" dia (base) x 26" H

Early Salesman Sample Cable Car Grip by Chicago Model Works button and the backmost panel hasc. 1890s 1900s; Chicago Model Works Chicago, IL Miniature mechanical salesman's model of a cable car grip mechanism, built to illustrate the function of the clamping system used in early cable transit. The riveted metal frame houses a lever actuated linkage that drives a central gripping assembly, mimicking the action of full scale grips used to seize and release a continuously moving underground cable. Dual cylindrical housings flank the central