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Early 20th century Germany business equipment collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of an AGFA Billy I automatic camera, a Kantorowicz liqueur bottle, a Reichspost W28 rotary phone, and a spring balance scale as examples of personal and business equipment that would have been in use in Germany in the early 20th century.
Provenance
The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
Date
approximately 1880-approximately 1938
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Deutsche Reichspost W28 model desktop rotary phone

Object | Accession Number: 1990.79.1

Geography
manufacture: Berlin (Germany)
Date
manufacture:  1928-approximately 1938
Deutsche Reichspost W28 model desktop rotary phone

10 kilo economic spring balance scale with a weighing pan

Object | Accession Number: 1990.79.2 a-d

Date
manufacture:  approximately 1900
10 kilo economic spring balance scale with a weighing pan

Agfa Billy I automatic 6 x 9 cm format camera

Object | Accession Number: 1990.79.3

Geography
manufacture: Germany
Date
manufacture:  1930-1931
Agfa Billy I automatic 6 x 9 cm format camera

Hartwig Kantorowicz ceramic liqueur bottle

Object | Accession Number: 1990.79.4

Geography
manufacture: Poznan (Poland)
Date
manufacture:  approximately 1880-1920
Hartwig Kantorowicz ceramic liqueur bottle
 
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