Professor Butts (pencil sharpener)
date: label: Date made
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name: label: original artist
content: Goldberg, Rube
notes: label: Description
content: Camera-ready pen and ink drawing by Rube Goldberg for his comic invention series <I>The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts.</I> Goldberg drew for the series between 1914 and 1964.
label: Description
content: Cartoon text: <I>Professor Butts gets his think-tank working and evolves the simplified pencil-sharpener. Open window (A) and fly kite (B). String (C) lifts small door (D) allowing moths (E) to escape and eat read flannel shirt (F). As weight of shirt becomes less, shoe (G) steps on switch (H) which heats electric iron (I) and burns hole in pants (J). Smoke (K) enters hole in tree (L) smoking out opossum (M) which jumps into basket (N) pulling rope (O) and lifting cage (P), allowing woodpecker (Q) to chew wood from pencil (R) exposing lead. Emergency knife (S) is always handy in case opossum or the woodpecker gets sick and can't work.</I>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Rueben L. Goldberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.23487
label: catalog number
content: 23487
label: accession number
content: 1972.299186
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Object Type
content: drawing
label: Other Terms
content: Drawing; Pen & Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.1 cm x 45.9 cm; 7 1/2 in x 18 1/16 in