Bakelite Container
notes: label: Description
content: The lid of this small Bakelite container has an etched image of a woman in profile and the words "de Muir / Boston." George Gamble, d.b.a. de Muir Laboratories, registered a design for “Compacts Containing a Facial Pad or Cleansing Wafers used as a Combined Cleanser, Mild Astringent, and Make-Up Base” in the mid-1930s. He received design patent (#109,802) for a “Design for a Cover for a Compact Box” on May 28, 1938. And he advertised De Muir Petals (facial cleansers) in the Boston Globe (April 26, 1938).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Margaret E. Vaill
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.3122.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 1994.3122
label: catalog number
content: 1994.3122.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Container
label: Object Name
content: Bakelite Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Bakelite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rhinestones (contents material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.3 cm x 6.4 cm; 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 6.35 cm