Balance
notes: label: Description
content: White enameled metal nursery scale with two weights (one slotted weight and one bottom weight with hanger). An inscription reads “DETECTO SCALES INC, BROOKLYN NY USA.” Aaron Jacobs (1888-1961), a Jewish immigrant from Hungary, established the firm.
label: Description
content: The “UNICEF” decal on the scale refers to the United Nations International Children’s Fund, an organization established in 1946, in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
title: label: Title
content: Balance
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0197.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0197
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0197.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Other Terms
content: Balance; Balance, Unequal Beam; Manufacturing And Dispensing Equipment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)