Tailor’s Measuring Rule
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1950
name: label: user
content: Rudin, Bainet
notes: label: Description
content: These shears, pressing board, buttonhole cutter, buttonhole scissors, thread holders, and measuring sticks were owned by a Russian Jew named Barnet Rudin. An apprentice tailor from Minsk, Rudin immigrated to New York City in 1899 and finally settled in Rochester, NY, in 1908. There he opened a tailor's shop, which he continued to run up until his death in 1959.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belarus: Minsk, Minsk
topic: label: Subject
content: Tailor
label: Subject
content: Immigration
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Work
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Belle Rudin Altman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T17106E
label: accession number
content: 310752
label: catalog number
content: T17106E
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Rulers and Measuring Sticks, Set of (5)
label: Object Name
content: ruler, curved
label: Object Type
content: <Measuring Device Classification>
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: curved ruler: 19 in x 1 1/4 in; 48.26 cm x 3.175 cm