Celluloid Doll: Museum Object and Cultural History
Celluloid Doll: Date made: 1890-1900. Date made: 1890s. Object Name: Celluloid Doll.
The object in the museum catalogue
John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920) was an American inventor who, in 1869, obtained a patent for a solid, stable nitrocellulose that he termed celluloid. He formed the Albany Dental Plate Company in 1870, and then the Celluloid Manufacturing Company in 1872. The donor believed that this celluloid doll was blow molded by John Wesley Hyatt in the 1890s.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1890-1900
- Date made: 1890s
- Object Name: Celluloid Doll
- Measurements: overall: 89 mm x 38 mm x 16 mm; 3 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 5/8 in
- Measurements: overall: 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 3.81 cm x 7.3025 cm
- ID Number: 1983.0626.06
- catalog number: 1983.0626.06
- accession number: 1983.0626
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Harry DuBois
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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