chatelaine, pencil
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The mechanical pencil is constructed of a non ferrous gilt faceted outer tube with a smaller tapered inner tube that slides in and out. A small ridged band moves the inner tube. The end of the pencil has a decorative end cap inset with a pale purple faceted stone or glass.
label: Description (Brief)
content: In a world before copying machines and computers, every letter, memo, and report had to be typed many times. If you made one mistake, you typed it again. Secretaries drafted, corrected, and retyped in an almost endless loop. Offices had typing pools (dozens of women) making enough perfect copies for everyone. There was no backspace key!
label: Description (Brief)
content: Pens and pencils were symbols of secretarial work and given as gifts to “office girls.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.200122.1417
label: catalog number
content: 200122.1417
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chatelaine, pencil
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gilt non-ferrous metal, glass or stone (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1/4 in; x 8.255 cm x .635 cm