Figure 45 Plate, Homer Laughlin China Company, Newell, West Virginia, 1952. Whiteware. D. 9 3/4". (Courtesy, The Lyceum: Alexandria’s History Museum.) These plates likely were ordered for the centennial of the Washington Street Methodist Church, Alexandria, which was built in 1850–1851, as the numbers and letters in the green-printed maker’s mark date this plate to February 1952. |