Safety Razor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1923
name: label: maker
content: Gem Safety Razor Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Steel safety razor with a “GEM” inscription. An inscription on the cardboard box reads “We guarantee the perfection / and shave satisfaction of this / Gem Safety Razor and its / marvelous Gem Double-Life / Blade. Gem blades are sold / everywhere and always run / 100% perfect to the package.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Gem Double Life Blades in Popular Mechanics (Feb. 1926): 162.
label: Description
content: This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (cardboard box; paper inserts)
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Removal
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Marketed to Men
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content: Beauty and Health
label: Exhibition
content: Object Project (razor)
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Glaser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0481.230
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0481.230
objectType: label: Object Name
content: razor
label: Object Name
content: personal hygiene product
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 4.7625 cm x 3.4925 cm