Razor Blades
name: label: maker
content: Gem Safety Razor Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Blades for a safety razor in a cardboard box with inscriptions that read in part “THE MILLION DOLLAR RAZOR” and “AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., Inc.”
label: Description
content: Henry J. Gaisman (1870-1974), inventor and philanthropist, established the Auto Strop Safety Razor Co. in 1906 and sold it to the Gillette Safety Razor Co. in 1930. The firm introduced “THE MILLION DOLLAR RAZOR” in 1928, boasting that it was “the result of 21 years of research and the expenditure of a million dollars in experiments.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “H. J. Gaisman, 104, Inventor, Is Dead,” New York Times (Aug. 7, 1974), p. 38.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Removal
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Marketed to Men
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content: Beauty and Health
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mario Cassinelli, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0782.316
label: accession number
content: 1984.0782
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0782.316
objectType: label: Object Name
content: razor blades
label: Object Name
content: personal hygiene product
label: Object Type
content: Personal Hygiene Products
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 8.255 cm x 2.8575 cm