Flashlight
date: label: date made
content: after 1938
label: date made
content: after 1937
label: date made
content: ca 1935
label: date made
content: ca 1939
name: label: maker
content: Stewart R. Browne Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Flashlight case made of Bakelite, with label that reads: “PERMISSIBLE / Electric Flashlight / Stewart R. Browne Mfg. Co., Inc. / . . . / NEW YORK, N.Y. / Approved for Safety in / . . . and Air Mixtures” and that carries the seal of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. The Stewart R. Browne Mfg. Co. was formed in in 1918. Permissible, in this instance, meant safe for use in mines.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Miners
label: Subject
content: Safety
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Union Carbide Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0976.02
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0976.02
label: accession number
content: 1981.0976
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flashlight
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 2 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 6.29996 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 2 5/8 in; 25.4 cm x 6.6675 cm