Suitcase
name: label: maker
content: Samsonite
notes: label: Description
content: A piece of paper associated with this suitcase reads “Naugahyde / Decorative Vinyl Fabric.” The cardboard box reads “Samsonite.”
label: Description
content: Jesse Shwayder (1882-1970), a Jewish businessman in Denver, Co., established the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company in 1910. He named an early suitcase Samson, after the Biblical strongman; and introduced the term Samsonite in 1941 for the firm’s tapered vulcanized fiber suitcase. The firm changed its name to SAMSONITE in 1965.
label: Description
content: Naugahyde is a brand of artificial leather consisting of a knit fabric with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coating. Bruce Hunter, a scientist at the United States Rubber Company, developed the material. The name was trademarked in 1936, and derives from Naugatuck, the Connecticut town where it was first manufactured.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Colorado, Denver
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0019.48
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0019.48
label: accession number
content: 1994.0019
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Suitcase
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 1/2 in x 24 in x 7 1/2 in; 54.61 cm x 60.96 cm x 19.05 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 27 in x 21 3/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 68.58 cm x 55.245 cm x 28.575 cm