Celluloid Novelty
Celluloid Novelty
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- Description (Brief)
- Flat, rectangular card advertising the Nicholson File Company of Providence, R.I. It has a red front with green border and an image of a nail file with a product box. The reverse is white with red and black print, and has a calendar for 1937. This was likely an ad for a French-speaking country, as the front reads, "La Lime Qui Dure" and "Une Lime Appropriée Pour Tout Travail" meaning "The File that Lasts" and "A File Suited for All Work."
- Description
- One side of this celluloid card has a calendar for 1937 and an advertisement for the Nicholson File Company in Providence, R.I. The other side has an image of a Nicholson file, “La Lime Qui Dure.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- calendar
- Celluloid Novelty
- date made
- 1937
- maker
- Nicholson File Company
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- Physical Description
- cellulose nitrate (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.7 cm x 5.5 cm; 3 7/16 in x 2 3/16 in
- overall: 1/16 in x 2 3/16 in x 3 7/16 in;.15875 cm x 5.55625 cm x 8.73125 cm
- ID Number
- 2006.0098.0598
- accession number
- 2006.0098
- catalog number
- 2006.0098.0598
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Celluloid
- Advertising
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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