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Photographer: Screen shot by Cynthia L. Clark
Caption: Mr. Peanut-World Icon (Courtesy of markerhistory.com).
Additional Description: This photo of the “Mr. Peanut-World Icon” marker is a screen print captured on December 8, 2016 from markerhistory.com. “Mr. Peanut-World Icon” was approved in 2008 but never erected. Read more under commentary. INSCRIPTION: In 1913, a peanut factory, known as Planter’s Nut and Chocolate Factory, moved from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Suffolk. Amedeo Obici, owner of the factory, sponsored a contest to develop a “mascot” for the company in 1916. The winning drawing submitted by twelve year old and fellow Italian American, Antonio Gentile, who lived with his family in their home in this Hall Place neighborhood, was a peanut with arms and legs labeled, “Mr. Peanut.” Mr. Peanut made his world debut in 1918 in the Saturday Evening Post and is now ranked as one of the best-known advertising icons in the world.
Submitted: December 16, 2016, by Cynthia L. Clark of Suffolk, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p372310
File Size: 0.186 Megabytes

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