Tool with Celluloid Handle
date: label: date made
content: after 1900
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A specialized metal tool used to insert stencils into the metal frame of an addressing machine. It has advertising copy on the celluloid handle for Elliott Addressing Machine Co. of Boston, Mass. This tool was probably given to customers who purchased the machines.
label: Description
content: Sterling Elliott (1852-1922) was born on a farm in Michigan, opened a machine shop in Watertown, Mass., became interested in bicycles, and established <i>The Bicycling World</i>. Then, to handle this amazingly successful weekly publication, he invented, manufactured and marketed an addressing machine. This flat metal tool was used to insert stencils into metal frame of one of those machines. The inscription on the celluloid handle reads “ELLIOTT Addressing Machine Co. / BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: The Elliott Addressing Machine Co., <i>The Story of a Father and Son or "Unscrewing the Inscrutable"</i> (Massachusetts, 1941).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Advertising
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1383
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1383
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tool
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: ferrous metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.2 cm x 14.5 cm x .5 cm; 1/2 in x 5 11/16 in x 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/16 in x 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in; .47625 cm x 1.27 cm x 14.605 cm