Celluloid Post Card
date: label: date made
content: 1908
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A celluloid postcard or carte postale, made in France. The front is decorated with a pop-up design: a hanging basket, made of paper, and three large flowers, with attached butterflies, dangling off it by silk ribbons. If you pull a ribbon at the top, the flowers holding the butterflies unfold and move the butterflies up.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
topic: label: Subject
content: Mail
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Communications
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.0036
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0036
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.5 cm x 8.5 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 3 7/16 in x 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 8.73125 cm x .635 cm