RapiDesign 19 Drawing Template
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: RapiDesign, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This clear yellowish plastic rectangular template has a five-inch scale divided to sixteenths of an inch across the top and one divided to tenths of an inch along the bottom. The interior has openings in the shape of circles, hexagons, squares, and triangles with diameters of 1/2, 7/16, 3/8, 11/32, 5/16, 9/32, 1/4, 7/32, 3/16, 5/32, 1/8, and 3/32 inches. A mark on the template reads: RAPIDESIGN No. 19. Another mark reads: SKETCH MATE.
label: Description
content: A pen mark on the paper envelope reads: 3914-49. Another one reads: $1. A stamp on the envelope reads: RUTH LUTZ COMPANY (/) 540 Volusia Avenue (/) DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA (/) PHONE: 253-3691. The Ruth Lutz Company was founded in 1946 and in business in Daytona Beach in 1965 at the address and telephone number given on the envelope.
label: Description
content: A version of this template was available in 2016 from art suppliers as the RapiDesign Sketch Mate R-19 with $14.35 as the list price.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>The Jetstream: Official Newspaper of the Student Body of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute</I>, vol. 1, issue 4, August 5, 1965, p. 6.
label: Description
content: Art Supply Warehouse web page, accessed October 17, 2016.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Drawing Templates
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In Memory of Isaac Giacinto Molella
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0433.06
label: accession number
content: 1992.0433
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0433.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: template
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (envelope material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (template material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 15 cm x 9.2 cm; 1/32 in x 5 29/32 in x 3 5/8 in