Friction Matches
Friction Matches
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- matches
- Other Terms
- Matches, Sheet of; Fire Making Apparatus
- date made
- 1909 - 1910
- date purchased
- 1909 - 1910
- place made
- United States
- place purchased
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Physical Description
- phosphorous (match tips material)
- potassium chlorate (match tips material)
- sulphur (match tips material)
- pine (matchsticks material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in;.3175 cm x 3.81 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- DL.380921
- catalog number
- 380921
- accession number
- 157029
- Credit Line
- Gift of Roland M. Harper
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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