Pair of Scissors
name: label: Associated Name
content: Transportation Security Administration
notes: label: Description
content: This pair of scissors was seized by TSA screeners at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Prior to 9/11 scissors were listed in the airlines checkpoint operations guide as acceptable items to bring onto an airplane.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Air Travel
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Transportation
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content: September 11
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3058.50
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3058.50
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3058
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scissors
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 2 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 22.86 cm x 6.985 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 22.225 cm x 6.985 cm x .635 cm