Match Safe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1908
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Souvenir metal match safe with hinged lid from Gettysburg, Pa. A wrap-around celluloid label shows a color image of the High Water Mark Monument on one side, and the house where Jennie Wade was shot, on the reverse. Jennie Wade was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg.
label: Description
content: Match safes were designed to hold friction matches. This one, made of metal covered with celluloid, has a photograph of the High Water Mark Monument in Gettysburg one side, and the Jennie Wade house on the other. High water here refers to the deepest penetration of Confederate troops into the Union Line. Jeannie Wade was a civilian shot at the Battle of Gettysburg.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: referenced
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Gettysburg
topic: label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.0996
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0996
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Match Safe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 6.5 cm x 3.5 cm; 3/8 in x 2 9/16 in x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 1.11125 cm x 6.6675 cm x 3.81 cm