Kem Playing Cards (2 Decks)
name: label: maker
content: Kem Playing Cards
notes: label: Description
content: Kem Plastic Playing Cards Inc. introduced the word “KEM” to commerce in 1934; advertised KEM cards as germ resistant in 1937; and showed KEM cards at the New York World’s Fair of 1939. This cardboard box contains two decks of cards. The inscription reads, in part: “KEM CARDS / America’s Finest Playing Cards” AND "Kem Playing Cards, Inc. RCA Building, New York" AND “Licensed under Patent No. 1911...22”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Celanese Plastic Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334564
label: accession number
content: 310799
label: catalog number
content: 334564
label: patent number
content: 1811?22
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Box Containing 2 Decks Cards
label: Object Name
content: Box of Playing Cards (2 Decks)
label: Object Name
content: Kem Playing Cards (2 Decks)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 9.8 cm x 12.7 cm x 2.4 cm; 3 7/8 in x 5 in x 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.7 cm x 5.6 cm; 3 7/16 in x 2 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; box with cards: 1 in x 5 in x 3 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 12.7 cm x 9.525 cm