watch
notes: label: Description
content: An Illinois brand wrist watch with brown leather strap. The watch is nickel with a radium painted faceplate.
label: Description
content: In the 1910s–1920s, radium was all the rage. A glowing radium watch was a must-have item. In factories, young women painted face dials with radioactive material. Unaware that the paint was harmful, they would place the brush tip on their lips to achieve a fine point.
label: Description
content: After suffering from radium poisoning, several young women sued their employers and brought national attention to the safety of workers. These young women helped create new laws to protect all workers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of W. Carl Wyatt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.317074
label: catalog number
content: 317074
label: accession number
content: 230383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Watch
label: Other Terms
content: Watch; Mechanical, Spring-Driven; Wrist Watch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (watch wrist strap material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel, glass, radium paint, leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 21.9075 cm x 3.81 cm x .635 cm