Pin Tray
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-orange pin tray 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.4486.01
label: accession number
content: 1931.116481
label: catalog number
content: A.4486.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bakelite Pin Tray
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 2 7/8 in; 7.62 cm x 7.366 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 in; 3.175 cm x 7.62 cm