Sherman Detective Agency letter opener
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description
content: The “COMPLIMENTS OF SHERMAN DETECTIVE AGENCY / 16 STATE ST., BOSTON, MASS.” inscription on one side of this celluloid letter opener refers to a firm that was established by John Francis Sherman in Boston, in 1910, and that conducted industrial espionage and disrupted labor actions.
label: Description
content: Lewis L. Warren, <i>A Few True Detective Stories That Are Interesting and Instructive</i> (Boston, 1917). This was dedicated to John F. Sherman, General Manager of the Sherman Detective Agency.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
label: referenced
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: labor issues
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Advertising
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1231
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1231
objectType: label: Object Name
content: celluloid letter opener
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 21.1 cm; in x 8 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 8 5/16 in x 1 in; .3175 cm x 21.11375 cm x 2.54 cm