Asbestos fabric sample; Johns-Manville, Inc.; 1924
date: label: date made
content: 1924
notes: label: Description
content: Johns-Manville donated foot square samples of asbestos cloth and some other of its asbestos products in 1924. In a letter in the accession file, the company describes the uses of asbestos cloth: "for clothing, i.e. aprons, caps, coats and sleeve prtoectors, gloves and mittens, hats and helmets, leggings, overalls, shoes, also for theatre curtains, blankets for smotheirng small fires in cleaning establlishments, etc., fire drags for fighting field fires and for other requirements where Asbestos fireproof cloth is required.. Asbestos listing is a fireproof, flexible, woven tape suitable for wrapping all forms of electrical wires."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Johns-Manville, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T05214.000
label: catalog number
content: T05214.000
label: catalog number
content: T5214
label: accession number
content: 85092
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fabric samples, batch of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: asbestos (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: woven (?? production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 12 3/8 in x 12 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 31.4325 cm x 31.115 cm