Human Skeleton Assembly Kit
name: label: maker
content: Renwal Products Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this cardboard box reads “Renwal / Products Inc. / Human Skeleton / Assembly Kit / Anatomically Accurate.”
label: Description
content: Isidor Irving Rosenbloom (1903-1992)—born in New York City, died in Great Neck, in Nassau County, and related to the Popeil family (of Pocket Fisherman fame)—displayed a glass knife at the New York World’s Fair of 1939, and established Renwal Products, Inc. that same year. That firm began offering plastic toys shortly after World War II. By 1951 it had established a new factory in Toyland Park, in Mineola (on Long Island), and was trading as Renwal Manufacturing Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: June W. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0689.14
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0689.14
label: accession number
content: 1991.0689
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3.2 cm x 25.3 cm x 43.8 cm; 1 1/4 in x 9 15/16 in x 17 1/4 in