Manicure Kit
name: label: user
content: Jones, Shirley May
notes: label: Description
content: This clasp leather purse was used as a manicure kit by exotic dancer Shirley May Jones during the 1940s and 1950s. The leather case contains a buffer, metal nail file, cuticle removal, and nail pusher. The maker is unknown, but the inner is stamped, “Made in Germany, US-Zone” putting its manufacture in the southwest region of Germany that was under United States control after World War II.
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: American Enterprise
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0116.0669
label: accession number
content: 2006.0116
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0116.0669
objectType: label: Object Name
content: manicure kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: skin, leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: sandpaper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: platic, bakelite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 4.7625 cm x 8.89 cm