Stamp holder
date: label: date made
content: 1904
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Notebook with celluloid cover and wax pages. The front cover features an image of two birds perched atop a U.S. mailbox. On the back, black print in cursive script reads "Compliments of Blake & Johnson, Waterbury, Conn." A calendar for 1904 occupies the first few pages.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Blake & Johnson Co. was founded in 1852 and produced machinery for working metals to be used to by manufacturers of jewelry, plated goods, silver goods, and flat wire.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Source: <i>The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut Volume 2</i> by Sarah Johnson Prichard and Anna Lydia Ward. Published by the Price and Lee Company, 1896.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
label: referenced
content: United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
topic: label: Subject
content: Mail
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Advertising
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1239
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1239
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postage stamp carrier
label: Object Name
content: stamp holder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wax paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 6.5 cm; 1 9/16 in x 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 3/8 in; 6.35 cm x 3.81 cm x .9525 cm