Shade
- Object Name:
- Shade
- Object ID:
- 2015.033.02
- Creator:
- Decorative Cabinet Corporation
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- circa 1942
- Description:
- "EZDO" Blackout Shade, for use during World War II. Black paper roller shade with wooden valance, accessories, and instruction sheet, in original unopened cardboard and paper package. Sealed with brown paper tape. Paper inscribed in black crayon, "37" Shade". Manufactured by the Decorative Cabinet Corporation, New York, NY.
- Material:
- Paper
Wood - Dimensions:
- W-4.5 L-38.5 D-4.5 inches
- Provenance:
- From house at 22 White Street, Concord, NH, owned by Frederick F. and Dora G. Hargraves during World War II. The donor purchased the house in 1994 and found three blackout shades in the attic, in their original unopened packages. She opened one (2015.033.01) but kept the other two intact. She donated one of the unopened packages to NHHS and gave the other one to the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary R. Deal
- Subjects:
- World War II, Window shades, War blackouts
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