Baby Scale
date: label: date made
content: about 1940
name: label: maker
content: Hanson Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: Scale purchased by Harold and Mary Jeanette (Zehrer) Dudley in Worcester County, MA., ca. 1940, and used by family members for four generations. The inscription on the dial reads “HANSON / MODEL 3025 / NURSERY SCALE / . . . CHICAGO, . . . USA.” The Hanson Scale Company was established in 1888 by Mainus and William Hanson, recent immigrants from Denmark. Many Hanson scales were made of sheet metal, and so were lighter and easier to handle than those of cast iron. The Sunbeam Corporation purchased Hanson in 1968.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Pediatrics
label: Subject
content: Health Care
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Karin J. Howard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0235.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0235
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0235.01
label: model number
content: 3025
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scale, baby
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 cm x 50 cm x 27.7 cm; 12 7/32 in x 19 11/16 in x 10 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 19 3/4 in x 10 7/8 in; 31.115 cm x 50.165 cm x 27.6225 cm