Display box of silkworm cocoons; Consular Collection
date: label: date made
content: 1898-1918
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Silkworm cocoons inside a cardboard display box with glass cover and covered with blue & white patterned paper. .Consular collection.
label: Description
content: Silkworm cocoons inside a cardboard display box with a glass cover; box covered with blue & white patterned paper. .
label: Description
content: Consular collection: Part of collection of samples acquired by US Consuls overseas between about 1898 and 1918, in the interests of promoting US trade and business opportunities; which was transferred by the Dept. of Commerce in the 1920s-30s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
title: label: Title
content: Display box of silkworm cocoons; Consular Collection
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Consular Collection Textile Samples
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from the Department of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN80511V04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cocoons
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 1 3/16 in; 15.24 cm x 3.048 cm