Drawing Instrument Supplies, Keuffel & Esser Pounce
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This rusting metal can is painted yellow, red and black and contains white powder. According to directions on the can "When the Tracing Cloth is so glossy that it will not readily take ink, dust on a little of this Powder, rub the surface with it by means of tuft of cotton or soft cloth and thoroughly remove all traces of the Powder. It will then take ink freely."
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Keuffel & Esser Co., <I>Catalogue</I>, New York, 1909, p. 15, item 116.
label: Description
content: Keuffel & Esser Co., <I>Catalogue</I>, New York, 1936, p. 281, item 3040. Includes drawing of shaker.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Hoboken
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.3059.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.3059.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1993.3059
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instrument supplies
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (tin material)
label: Physical Description
content: powder (contents material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.5 cm x 5.3 cm x 5.3 cm; 4 29/32 in x 2 3/32 in x 2 3/32 in