Frigidaire
Frigidaire
- Description (Brief)
- Celluloid tape measure advertising Frigidaire refrigerators. One side shows a man carrying a fridgidaire unit encircled by the slogan "This Modern "Ice Man" Calls Once with Frigidaire And the Ice "Stays Always" "
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Tape Measure
- Date made
- after 1919
- Associated Name
- Frigidaire
- maker
- Parisian Novelty Company
- Physical Description
- cellulose nitrate (overall material)
- cloth (tape material)
- metal (pull material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 cm x 3.5 cm; 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in
- overall: 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 1.5875 cm x 3.81 cm
- ID Number
- 2006.0098.1091
- accession number
- 2006.0098
- catalog number
- 2006.0098.1091
- subject
- Refrigeration
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Food
- Advertising
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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