John Deere
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Object Details
- advertiser
- Deere & Company
- depicted
- Deere, John
- Parisian Novelty Company
- Description (Brief)
- A tape measure in a celluloid case of cream celluloid with yellow and green on the front and back. Advertising copy for the John Deere Company includes a profile portrait of John Deere with the message, "He gave to the world the steel plow," underneath. The other side bears the John Deere logo.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1917
- ID Number
- 2006.0098.0927
- accession number
- 2006.0098
- catalog number
- 2006.0098.0927
- Object Name
- tape measure
- Physical Description
- cellulose nitrate (overall material)
- cloth (tape material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 cm x 3.5 cm; 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in
- overall: 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 3.81 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Celluloid
- Advertising
- Agriculture
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Farming
- Record ID
- nmah_1329785
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-2fdc-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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