The Mouse Trap: Museum Object and Cultural History
The Mouse Trap: date made: 19th-early 20th century. Object Name: stereograph. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
hand colored stereograph, most likely a scene from a play; woman wearing a magenta dress seated in a wooden chair at center; man at her right is kneeling, holding a broom and sweeping underneath her chair while a dog with wiry fur appears to be biting a rung of the chair; a man stands behind them holding up his hands; and elderly woman is standing at right slightly behind a spinning wheel; printed on lable on verso "The Mouse Trap"
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 19th-early 20th century
- Object Name: stereograph
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
- Subject: Theater
- Subject: Actors
- Subject: Men
- Subject: Women
- Subject: Elderly
- Subject: Dogs
- ID Number: 2012.3033.0400
- nonaccession number: 2012.3033
- catalog number: 2012.3033.0400
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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