Keith's Continuous Vaudeville Base Ball Score Counter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900-1910
name: label: associated institution
content: Keith's Vaudeville
label: thru person
content: Rinsland, George
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Celluloid baseball score keeper in the shape of a baseball catcher's mitt. The score keeper has numbered wheels by which fans could keep track of each team's runs and hits in a baseball game. Celluloid, the first successful commercial plastic, was used to produce a variety of promotional products.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This score counter advertised Keith's Continuous Vaudeville Show. Benjamin Franklin (B.F.) Keith (1846-1914) was an entertainment pioneer who helped develop variety shows that were open for hours on end, and who helped bring vaudeville into middle class acceptability.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Vaudeville
label: Subject
content: Baseball
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.310547.007
label: catalog number
content: 310547.07
label: accession number
content: 310547
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Score Counter
label: Object Name
content: score counter, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: celluloid (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 5.715 cm