A Calendar tile was made by Wedgwood for Jones McDuffee & Stratton, which was established in 1810 at Boston and markets ceramics and glasses etc.,
for its advertisment activities. The Company is still in operation. A size of tile is 5 x 3.5 x 0.5". On the surface a famous building and/or personnels etc. are
depicted and on the back the calendar of the year in which a tile was manufactured is printed. It was manufactured between 1882 and 1929.
1882:Equestrian Statue of Washington
1883:Company's mark of Jones McDuffee & Stratton
1884:Map of Boston downtown area
1886:The Portland Vase
1887:First Cunard steamship "BRITANIA" & One of the latest Cunard ships " ETRURIA"
1888:Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood
1889:Faneuil Hall built 1763
1890:Old State House East end built 1657
1891:Houses of John Adams and John Quincy Adams in Quincy
1892:The Home of Washington in Mt. Vernon
1893:Independence Hall in Philladelphia
1894:Boston Public Library
1895:The State House Boston
1896:Trinity Church Boston
1897:Federal Street Theater
1898:King's Chapel
1899:Under this tree Washington took first command of the American Army.
1900:The John Hancock House built 1737
John Hancock is the first Statesman sighned "Declaration of Independence" and the first governor of Massachusetts State.
1901:Bunker Hill Monument
Bunker Hill is one of warfields in Independence War.
1902:Old North Church
1903:Home of James Russell Lowell Elmwood, Cambridge
Lowell is American Romantic Poet and Diplomat.
1904:The U.S. Frigate Constitution
1905:George Stephenson's Locomotive The Rocket & The Modern Compound Locomotive
1906:Jones & McDuffee Company
1907:Harvard Stadium
1908:Havard Medical School
1909:The New Museum of Fine Arts Boston
1910:The Mayflower arriving in Provincetown
1911:U.S. Frigate "Constitution" & U.S. Battleship "Florida"
1913:Cunard Line Dock Boston
1913:Pier46 Mystic Wharves
1914:Pier Head of Commonwealth Docks, Boston
1915:Boston Custom House
1916:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1917:United States Navy Yard Boston
1918:Boston Light The First Lighthouse in America
First lighted September 14,1716
1919:Memorial Hall, Havard University
1920:The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor
1921:John Harvard Founder Harvard Colledge
1922:The Cathedral Church of St. Paul Erected 1820
1923:The Minute Man Concord.Mass.
Minutemen were civilian colonists who independently formed militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies, comprising
the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War
1924:The Appeal to the Great Spirits
Appeal to the Great Spirit is a 1908 equestrian statue by Cyrus Dallin, located in front of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1926:The Flying Cloud
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours.
The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989.
1926:Coolidge Homestead
1927:Longfellow`s Wayside Inn
With humble beginnings as a simple, two-room family home hosting travelers along the Old Boston Post Road in 1716,
Longfellow’s Wayside Inn is now the oldest inn operating in the United States.
1928:Plymouth Rock
It is said that in 1620 Mayflower Pilgrims landed Plymouth first time and they stepped on this Rock.
1929:House of Seven Gables, Salem
A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution,
and atonement, and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft.