Nikon Shopping Bag
date: label: date made
content: 1980s
notes: label: Description
content: This is a paper shopping bag used by a Nikon retail store. The Nikon Corporation was established in 1917 when three Japanese optical companies merged to form the Japan Optical Industries Co., Ltd. Nikon got its start as an optical instruments manufacturer and did not release its first camera, the Nikon Model I, until 1948. The company became more popular in the U.S. after an American photojournalist, David Douglas Duncan, used Nikon lenses on his Leica camera during his time covering the Korean War. Today (2015), Nikon is most widely known for its cameras and camera lenses but they still manufacture a number of different optical products.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Retail and Marketing
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content: Advertising
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Grace Cohen Grossman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.3022.04
label: catalog number
content: 2015.3022.04
label: nonaccession number
content: 2015.3022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shopping bag
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall flat w/o handles: 14 in x 12 in x 1/4 in; 35.56 cm x 30.48 cm x .635 cm