Tailor’s Measuring Rule
- Description
- These shears, pressing board, buttonhole cutter, buttonhole scissors, thread holders, and measuring sticks were owned by a Russian Jew named Barnet Rudin. An apprentice tailor from Minsk, Rudin immigrated to New York City in 1899 and finally settled in Rochester, NY, in 1908. There he opened a tailor's shop, which he continued to run up until his death in 1959.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- rulers and measuring sticks, set of (5)
- ruler, curved
- Object Type
- date made
- 1900-1950
- user
- Rudin, Bainet
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- curved ruler: 19 in x 1 1/4 in; 48.26 cm x 3.175 cm
- Place Made
- Belarus: Minskaya Voblasts', Minsk
- ID Number
- TE*T17106D
- accession number
- 310752
- catalog number
- TE*T17106D
- subject
- Tailor
- Immigration
- Textiles
- Work
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Belle Rudin Altman
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