straightedge
notes: label: Description
content: Straightedge, steel, for cutting straight lines and for fixing registration marks on the blocks used in color printing. Woodblock-cutter's tool used in Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques from about 1890 to 1990s. Identified as No. 1 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter. Old paper label "No. 1"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Tokuno Gift
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.03210.01
label: accession number
content: 22582
label: catalog number
content: 3210.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: straightedge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.5 cm x 2.5 cm; 14 3/8 in x 31/32 in