Hump Hair Pins
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915 - 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Sol H. Goldberg (1887-1940) was a Chicagoan who, having invented Hump Hair Pins, established and presided over the Hump Hairpin Manufacturing Co. Later, when bobbed hair became fashionable, Goldberg began manufacturing bobby pins.
label: Description
content: Ref: “RITES TOMORROW / FOR HAIRPIN KING / SOL H. GOLDBERG,” Chicago Tribune (June 6, 1940), p. 30.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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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 Care and Enhancement
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content: Beauty and Health
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0798.498
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0798.498
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hair pins
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (product material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 6.35 cm