Spools of Asbestos Yarn; Johns-Manville, Inc.; 1924
Object Details
- Description
- Johns-Manville donated foot square samples of asbestos cloth and some other of its asbestos products in 1924. In a letter in the accession file, the company describes the uses of asbestos cloth: "for clothing, i.e. aprons, caps, coats and sleeve prtoectors, gloves and mittens, hats and helmets, leggings, overalls, shoes, also for theatre curtains, blankets for smotheirng small fires in cleaning establlishments, etc., fire drags for fighting field fires and for other requirements where Asbestos fireproof cloth is required.. Asbestos listing is a fireproof, flexible, woven tape suitable for wrapping all forms of electrical wires."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Johns-Manville, Inc.
- 1924
- ID Number
- TE.T05209.000
- catalog number
- T05209.000
- T5209
- accession number
- 85092
- Object Name
- spools of yarn
- Physical Description
- asbestos (?? material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 4 in x 4 13/16 in; 4.445 cm x 10.16 cm x 12.22375 cm
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_648352
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-a221-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
