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name: label: maker
content: Detecto Scale Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Detecto nursery scale for babies up to twenty-five pounds. One side of the basket depicts a baby girl with height and weight calculations from one to forty-eight months. The other side depicts a baby boy with height and weight calculations.
label: Description
content: Three Jewish immigrantes from Eastern Europe--Aaron J. Jacobs (1888-1961), Harry M. Jacobs (1891-1951), and Max Jacobs (1884-1978)--established the Jacob Brothers Company in 1900. The firm had a factory in Brooklyn and a showroom in Manhattan, and specialized in weighing scales and slicing machines. In 1917, it introduced the Detecto, “a scale built especially for physicians, gymnasiums and bathrooms.” By the 1940s, the Jacobs Brothers firm had become Detecto.
label: Description
content: Ref: “A Scale for Physicians, Etc.,” Hardware Dealers’ Magazine 47 (May 1, 1917): 993-994.
label: Description
content: Detecto Scales ad in Life Magazine (Dec. 1, 1947): 128.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3009.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2018.3009
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3009.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scale, baby
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.6 cm x 48.4 cm x 29 cm; 9 9/32 in x 19 1/16 in x 11 13/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 19 in x 11 1/4 in; 23.495 cm x 48.26 cm x 28.575 cm