Cold Cream Container
name: label: maker
content: Bakelite Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Bakelite, the first plastic made from synthetic components, was developed by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907. In 1931, the Bakelite Corporation gave the Smithsonian several items made of Bakelite. This red and black cold cream container is from that donation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bakelite Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.A.4496
label: catalog number
content: A.4496
label: accession number
content: 1931.116481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bakelite Cold Cream Container
label: Object Name
content: bakelite cold cream container
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall; container: 2 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 6.35 cm x 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; lid: 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 6.985 cm