Green Stamp Sign is a photograph by Peter Chilelli which was uploaded on August 12th, 2012.
Title
Green Stamp Sign
Artist
Peter Chilelli
Medium
Photograph
Description
Classic American man cave wall art.
S&H Green Stamps (also called Green Shield Stamps) were trading stamps popular in the United States from the 1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry and Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson. During the 1920s two brothers named Beinecke married two women named Sperry that were cousins. In time, the Beinecke's became the owners of S&H Green Stamps. One of their offspring, Edwin Beinecke would later make a substantial endowment to Yale University, his alma mater, for the construction of a library to house a rare book collection. A condition of the donation was that the building had to be laid out in the same geometric pattern as an S&H Green Stamp book.
Uploaded
August 12th, 2012
