Operating Gown
notes: label: Description
content: A pleated white cotton ankle length gown with two metal snaps in front, middle; one pocket on wearer's right side; belt loop at each side (2 total); and three-quarter length sleeves. The gown was probably homemade. It was part of a midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Medical
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Gynecology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Midwife Kit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0128.13
label: accession number
content: 2012.0128
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0128.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gown, midwife's kit
label: Object Name
content: gown, operating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, as folded and stored: 2 3/4 in x 17 in x 9 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 43.18 cm x 24.13 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 107.5 cm x 111 cm; 42 5/16 in x 43 11/16 in