surgical set; pocket case
date: label: date made
content: 1860-1870
name: label: maker
content: Kern, Horatio G.
notes: label: Description
content: This surgical set belonged to Robert Fletcher (1823-1912), an immigrant from England who served as a Union Army surgeon during the Civil War, and later as Librarian of the Surgeon General’s Library in Washington, D.C. A label in the set reads “MANUFACTURED BY / HORATIO G. KERN / No. 25 N. 8TH ST., PHILA.” Horatio G. Kern (1816-1889) made surgical and dental instruments.
label: Description
content: Ref: Horatio G. Kern, Catalogue of Surgical and Dental Instruments (Philadelphia, 1869).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: related event
content: Civil War
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12211
label: catalog number
content: M-12211
label: accession number
content: 272569
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: pocket case
label: Object Name
content: pocket instrument case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: tortoise shell (handles material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (blades material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 13.97 cm x 8.255 cm