Buttonhole Cutter
notes: label: Description
content: These shears, pressing board, buttonhole cutter, buttonhole scissors, thread holders, and measuring sticks were owned by a Russian Jew named Barnet Rudin. An apprentice tailor from Minsk, Rudin immigrated to New York City in 1899 and finally settled in Rochester, NY, in 1908. There he opened a tailor's shop, which he continued to run up until his death in 1959.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Work
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content: Textiles
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T17113
label: catalog number
content: T17113
label: accession number
content: 310752
objectType: label: Object Name
content: buttonhole cutter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 1 3/4 in; 25.4 cm x 4.445 cm