Hard Hat
notes: label: Description
content: This white plastic hard hat has a round sticker on its proper left side reading, side "INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL AND ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKERS" in blue lettering. There are small holes at the front, back, and on both sides of the hat. Along the inner rim, there is an ovalular logo reading "HARD BOILED" and beneath that "E.D. BULLARD CO./ SF U.S.A." Also inside the hat is an adjustable inner rim and strip of fabric to hold the hat above head and two stickers reading, "CLASS A / WASHINGTON, D.C. APPROVAL NO. 503-2."
label: Description
content: This hard hat was made by E.D. Bullard Co., a manufactory of hard hats and other safety equipment. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, San Francisco-based inventor Edward Dickinson Bullard and his son E.W. created safety equipment for miners. In 1919, E.W. invented the Hard Boiled® “hard hat,” inspired by his doughboy army helmet and designed to protect from the specific hazards miners faced. E.D. Bullard Co. has continued making these hard hats, and their creation inspired that of the first fire helmet. Hard hats are now commonplace, if not required, in construction sites and other hazardous settings.
label: Description
content: As indicated by the sticker on the left side, this hard hat likely belonged to a member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, a trade association founded in 1896. Members of this union have worked on many major American construction projects such as the Golden Gate Bridge, St. Louis Arch, and the World Trade Center.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0084.03
label: accession number
content: 1998.0084
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0084.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hard Hat
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.875 x 9.125 x 11.75;