Shopping List, "Bay Street Carpet"
date: label: date made
content: after 1886
notes: label: Description
content: With the invention of celluloid in 1870, many merchants now had a cheap, durable, and moldable plastic with which to produce complimentary advertising items. This shopping list booklet advertised the Bay State Carpet Company of Brockton, Massachusetts around 1900.
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Advertising
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.0536
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.0536
objectType: label: Object Name
content: notebook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (binding material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 4.5 cm; 2 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in