Mask, Gas
- Object Name:
- Mask, Gas
- Object ID:
- 1991.045.11
- Date:
- 1918
- Description:
- Gas mask, in tan cotton canvas bag with shoulder strap. Mask (rubber, hard and cracked) with fabric-covered hose and yellow metal canister. Tinted glass lenses in mask. With attached envelope containing instructions, record card, plaster repair strips, and safety pin. Bag stamped "S-18-23" inside flap, and "3" on outside. Flap has snap closures. World War I.
- Material:
- Textile
Composition
Metal
Canvas
Cotton - Provenance:
- Used by Philias Napoleon Dubuc (1894-1959), who was born in Franklin, NH, and grew up in Pittsfield, NH. During World War I, he served as a translator for the intelligence section of the 3rd Battalion, 303rd Infantry, in France. From 1931 to 1945, he worked in textile mills in Pittsfield, Suncook, and Manchester, NH, as well as in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Quebec. During World War II, he worked as a government inspector of textiles.
Gift includes several notebooks, letters, certificates, and other papers, all in NHHS manuscripts collection (1991-083). - Credit Line:
- Gift of Madeline Dubuc Hammond and Muriel Dubuc Lynch
- People:
- Dubuc, Philias N. (1894-1959)
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