Hair Brush
date: label: date made
content: 1920s
notes: label: Description
content: Hair brush with boar bristles and celluloid handle and back. The "FRENCH / IVORY" inscription on the handle was a pretentious term for celluloid. French Ivory articles were advertised in New York by 1911.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0430.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0430
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0430.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hair Brush
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, celluloid (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: boar bristles (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.6 cm x 6.4 cm x 2.5 cm; 8 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 8 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 21.59 cm x 6.35 cm