Celluloid Banner
notes: label: Description
content: Celluloid banner that looks like tortoise shell, with a “WILLIAM MAAS & CO. / NEW YORK” inscription. William Maas (1847-1923) was a German immigrant who began life in the United States as a peddler. By the early 1880s, he was manufacturing items of horn, rubber, ivory. This banner was at the Smithsonian by 1907.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.104948
label: catalog number
content: 104948
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Celluloid banner
label: Object Name
content: celluloid banner
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 7 5/8 in x 1 in; 36.83 cm x 19.3675 cm x 2.54 cm