Pin Tray
name: label: maker
content: Bakelite Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Bakelite, the first plastic made from synthetic components, was developed by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907. In 1931, the Bakelite Corporation gave the Smithsonian several items made of Bakelite. This dark green and red Bakelite pin tray is from that donation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bakelite Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.A.4486.08
label: catalog number
content: A.4486.08
label: accession number
content: 1931.116481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bakelite pin tray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 2 29/32 in; 7.62 cm x 7.366 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 in; 3.175 cm x 7.62 cm