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Crocker
Crocker is an archaic synonym of potter. People and fictional characters * Crocker (surname) Places United States * Crocker, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Crocker, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Crocker, Missouri, a city * Crocker, South Dakota, a census-designated place * Crocker, Washington, a census designated place * Mount Crocker, California * Crocker Mountain (Maine) Elsewhere * Mount Crocker, east of Comet, Queensland, Australia * Crocker Mountains, Sabah, Malaysia Business * Crocker & Brewster, an American publisher based in Boston (1818–76) * Crocker Motorcycles, an American motorcycle manufacturer * Crocker National Bank, an American bank bought by Wells Fargo Other uses * Crocker (sport), combination of soccer football and cricket * Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California See also *Betty Crocker, a brand name owned by General Mills *Lee Daniel Crocker Lee Daniel Crocker (born July 3, 1963) is an American computer programmer. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocker Art Museum
The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art. The collection includes American works dating from the Gold Rush to the present, European paintings and master drawings, one of the largest international ceramics collections in the U.S., and collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art. The Crocker Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. History Edwin B. Crocker (1818–1875), a wealthy California lawyer and judge, and his wife, Margaret Crocker (1822–1901), began to assemble a significant collection of paintings and drawings during an extended trip to Europe, from 1869 to 1871. Upon their return to Sacramento, they set about creating an art gallery in part of their grand home at the corner of Third and O streets. When the gallery was completed, it was opened to the public with proceeds funding the Sacrament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker is a brand and fictional character used in advertising campaigns for food and recipes. The character was created by the Washburn-Crosby Company in 1921 to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. In 1954, General Mills introduced the red spoon logo with her signature, placing it on Gold Medal flour, Bisquick, and cake-mix packages. A portrait of Betty Crocker appears on printed advertisements, product packaging, and cookbooks. The character was developed in 1921 following a unique Gold Medal Flour promotion featured in the ''Saturday Evening Post''. The ad asked consumers to complete a jigsaw puzzle and mail it to the then Washburn-Crosby Company, later General Mills, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In return, they would receive a pincushion shaped like a bag of flour. Along with 30,000 completed puzzles came several hundred letters with cooking-related questions. Realizing that especially housewives would want advice from a fellow woman, the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocker, Missouri
Crocker is a city in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States. The population was 929 at the 2020 census. History Crocker was platted in 1869, and named after South Pacific Railroad shareholder Uriel Crocker. Beginning as early as the 1920s, Uriel Crocker was often misidentified as Eurilis J. Crocker. A post office called Crocker has been in operation since 1872. Geography Crocker is located on a ridge north of the Gasconade River and east of Tavern Creek. The town is served by Missouri routes 17 and 133.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 46, According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,110 people, 433 households, and 278 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 525 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 95.9% White, 0.5% African American, 0.8% Native American, 0.1% Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocker Mountains
The Crocker Mountains () form a range that separates the West Coast and Interior divisions of Sabah, Malaysia. At an average height of , it is the highest mountain range in the state. It is named after a 19th century British administrator of North Borneo, William Maunder Crocker. Geology The mountain range is made up of uplifted and folded sedimentary rocks consisting of weathered soft sandstones and shales. The highest point is Mount Kinabalu at . Most of the park boundary lies above with its lowlands used for cash crops and paddy field. On the eastern side of the mountain range lies the Tambunan Valley at which is mainly terraced paddy fields, and groves of bamboo border the north-eastern part of the protected park. The park area is important as a water catchment to supply water to various rivers in the west coast and interior districts of Sabah including the Papar River, the Kimanis River, the Bongawan River, the Membakut River, the Padas River and the Melalap Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocker (sport)
Crocker (sometimes spelled ''Croccer'') is a team sport played between two large teams. Its origins are in cricket and baseball. It also makes the use of a rugby ball, or a soccer ball which may explain its name. It is a casual sport not played formally, but often found on British summer camps. Rules Teams Crocker is played between two teams of undefined size, typically between 10 and 50 per side. The teams are not necessarily exactly even, though they are usually of similar size. Alternatively, a lack of skill on the side of one team may be made up for by a numerical advantage (for example in the case of many children playing against fewer adults). The Field and Players Crocker fields vary, but will often take advantage of whatever space is available. Often taking place on large, flat, grassy school fields, a crocker pitch may not have defined outer limits. A generally agreed setup will involve a semicircular bowling and batting area usually marked out with cones. The batsman s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocker National Bank
Crocker National Bank was an American bank headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was acquired by and merged into Wells Fargo Bank in 1986. History The bank traces its history to the Woolworth National Bank in San Francisco. Charles Crocker, who was one of The Big Four of the Central Pacific Railroad and the head of construction for the western half of America's first transcontinental railroad, acquired a controlling interest in Woolworth for his son William Henry Crocker. The bank was renamed Crocker Woolworth National Bank, later Crocker National Bank. In 1925, Crocker National merged with the First National Bank of San Francisco, founded by James D. Phelan, to form Crocker First National Bank. In 1956, Crocker First National Bank merged with the Anglo California National Bank (established by Herbert Fleishhacker) to form Crocker-Anglo Bank. In 1963, Crocker-Anglo Bank merged with Los Angeles' Citizens National Bank, to become Crocker-Citizens Bank. and later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocker Motorcycles
The Crocker Motorcycle Company is an American manufacturer, based in Los Angeles, California, founded by Albert Crocker. Located at 1346 Venice Blvd, Crocker produced a series of kits and whole motorcycles between 1931 and 1941: an overhead-valve conversion kit for the Indian 101 Scout motor (1932), a single-cylinder speedway racer (1934), powerful V-twin road motorcycles (1936–40), and the Scootabout (1940–41)motor scooter. Production ceased in 1941. In 1999 Crocker Motorcycle Company was revived to manufacture replacement parts and complete Small and Big Tank Crockers in Southern California, following the original specifications. Michael Schacht is Crocker Motorcycle company President. Original Crocker company Crocker's first manufacturing projects focused on accessory parts for Indian motorcycles, including steering dampers. Crocker next designed an overhead-valve conversion kit for Indian 101 Scout V-twins, intended for dirt track racing. The first example of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocker & Brewster
Crocker & Brewster (1818–1876) was a leading publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts, during its 58-year existence. The business was located at today's 173–175 Washington Street for nearly half a century; in 1864 it moved to the adjoining building, where it remained until the firm's dissolution. History Foundation and early years The firm was founded by Uriel Crocker and Osmyn Brewster, with the participation of their earlier employer, Samuel Turell Armstrong, later mayor of Boston and acting governor of the Commonwealth. In 1815, Crocker was made foreman of Armstrong's printing office, and in 1818 was, with his fellow-apprentice, Brewster, taken into partnership with Armstrong. The trio agreed that the bookstore would be named for Mr. Armstrong and the printing office for Crocker & Brewster. In 1821 a branch of the business was established in New York City. Five years later, it was sold to Daniel Appleton and Jonathan Leavitt, becoming the foundation of the firm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a ''potter'' is also called a ''pottery'' (plural ''potteries''). The definition of ''pottery'', used by the ASTM International, is "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products". End applications include tableware, ceramic art, decorative ware, toilet, sanitary ware, and in technology and industry such as Insulator (electricity), electrical insulators and laboratory ware. In art history and archaeology, especially of ancient and prehistoric periods, pottery often means only vessels, and sculpture, sculpted figurines of the same material are called terracottas. Pottery is one of the Timeline of historic inventions, oldest human inventions, originating before the Neolithic, Neolithic period, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comet, Queensland
Comet is a historically-rich rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Comet had a population of 360 people. Geography Comet is the oldest town in the Emerald, Queensland, Emerald area, established at the confluence of the Comet River with the Nogoa River. The town is located on the Capricorn Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. The Central Western railway line, Queensland, Central Western railway line enters the locality from the east (Blackwater, Queensland, Blackwater / Stewarton, Queensland, Stewarton), passes through the town, and exits to the west (Emerald). No passenger services stop at the local stations, which, with the exception of that at Yamala, whose use is being expanded as the CQ Inland Port, are all disused: * Yamala railway station () * Comet railway station, () * Tolmies railway station () * Burngrove railway station () Ensham railway statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocker (surname)
Crocker is a surname shared by: People * Aimée Crocker (1864-1941), American mystic, bohemian, and author * Albert Crocker (1882–1961), American inventor and entrepreneur * Alvah Crocker (1801–1874), American politician * Barbara Crocker (1910–1995), artist and author * Barry Crocker (born 1935), Australian singer and actor * Ben Crocker (born 1997), Australian former professional Australian rules footballer * Ben Crocker (boxer) (born 1994), Welsh boxer * Charles Crocker (1822–1888), American railroad tycoon * Chester Crocker (born 1941), American diplomat * Chris Crocker (Internet celebrity) (born 1987), American internet celebrity * Ellen Crocker (1872–1962) British suffragette * Erin Crocker (born 1981), American race car driver * Eva Crocker, Canadian writer * Fay Crocker (1914–1983), professional golfer * Frankie Crocker (1937–2000), American radio personality * Gary Crocker, Zimbabwean cricketer * Hans Crocker (1815–1889), American lawyer and pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Crocker
Mount Crocker is a remote mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in northern California, United States. It is situated in the John Muir Wilderness, on the boundary shared by Sierra National Forest with Inyo National Forest, and along the common border of Fresno County, California, Fresno County with Mono County, California, Mono County. Crocker ranks as the 291st-highest summit in California. Topographic relief is significant as the north aspect rises above McGee Creek in approximately one mile. It is nine miles northeast of Lake Thomas A Edison, and approximately southeast of the community of Mammoth Lakes, California, Mammoth Lakes. History This mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1911 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The name was applied during a 1907–09 survey by Robert Bradford Marshall of the United States Geological Survey, USGS to honor Charles Crocker (1822–1888), an American railroad executive who was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
