Daguerreotype Case
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1858
name: label: maker
content: A.P. Critchlow and Company
notes: label: Description
content: This thermoplastic case, which may date from the late 1850s, is made of a composite material that probably contains shellac, wood resin, and lampblack. A paper inside the case reads, in part: “A. P. CRITCHLOW & CO. / Manufacturers of Daguerreotype Cases / A.P.C. & CO. / Are the Original Inventors of / the Composition for the UNION CASE / (so called,) including all the various shades / of color and fineness of texture pecu- / liar to their manufacture and of the / EMBRACING RIVETED HINGES, thus / securing them from breaking out as / do others that are inserted / with or without a / metal brace. / Hinge Patented / OCT. 14, 1856, & APRIL 21, 1857.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Alfred P. Critchlow, “Hinge for Picture-Cases,” U.S. Patent 15,915 (Oct. 14, 1856; reissued April 21, 1857).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0138.19
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0138.19
label: accession number
content: 1984.0138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Daguerreotype Case
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 6 1/8 in x in; 12.7 cm x 15.5001 cm x 2.50012 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 6 1/8 in x 5 in; 2.8575 cm x 15.5575 cm x 12.7 cm