Ruler
date: label: date made
content: 1915-1930
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead and Hoag Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An advertising novelty for American Saw & Mfg. Co., maker of Lenox saws. The ruler is a twelve-inch folding ruler made of ivory-grained celluloid. It's marked in inches and centimeters.
label: Description
content: Folding 12-inch celluloid ruler marked in inches and centimeters, with inscriptions that read “AMERICAN SAW & MFG. CO. / SPRINGFIELD, MASS., U.S.A.” and “LENOX / HACK / SAWS.” Inscriptions on the back identify Lenox as “The Blade in the Plaid Box.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Advertising
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1700
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1700
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ruler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 32.4 cm x .2 cm; in x 12 3/4 in x 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 5 3/16 in x 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 13.17625 cm x .3175 cm