Ash Flash 2-cell flashlight
date: label: Date made
content: c1960
label: date made
content: ca 1960
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Ash Flash 2-cell flashlight. Metal cylindrical housing with 3-position slide switch & red push button on top. Screw-on metal battery cap (spring steel contact on the inside) on one end, screw-on metal lens cap on other end. GE PR6 lamp installed, held in place with a red plastic sleeve. Paper(?) gasket around reflector edge, clear plastic lens. Purchased at an antique show in Carlysle, PA in May 2000. See Schneider, page 61 for Ash Flash lantern.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0030.12
label: accession number
content: 2003.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0030.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: luminaire
label: Object Name
content: flashlight
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in x 2 in; 16.51 cm x 4.445 cm x 5.08 cm