White Lilac, Sample - Mary Chess
date: label: date made
content: 1940s-1950s
name: label: maker
content: Mary Chess Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the bottom of this perfume bottle reads in part “MARY CHESS . NEW YORK / WHITE LILAC / . . . / NEW YORK.” Mary Chess (1878-1964) was born in Louisville, Ky.; moved to London with her husband; and established the Mary Chess perfume company in New York in 1932. “I owe it all to Fanny, my cook,” she told a reporter in 1948.
label: Description
content: Ref: “She Started $1,000,000 in Kitchen,” Boston Globe (May 30, 1948), p. A3.
label: Description
content: “Mrs. Avery Robinson,” New York Times (Jan. 12, 1964), p. 92.
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: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Fragrance
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content: Beauty and Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0077.10
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0077.10
label: accession number
content: 2013.0077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fragrance, sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: perfume (product material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 2.5 cm; 2 3/8 in x 31/32 in