Vaccinator
name: label: maker
content: H. M. Alexander & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this item reads “ALEXANDER’S ASEPTIC VACCINATOR / MARIETTA, PENN. / NEW YORK, CHICAGO, OMAHA.” H. M. Alexander (1851-1903) was a graduate of Bucknell University and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School who, having become interested in smallpox, established the Lancaster County Vaccine Farm in Marietta, PA in 1882, and a second facility in Omaha in 1886.
label: Description
content: Ref: William F. Burr, “The Marietta Vaccine Farms,” Medical and Surgical Reporter 75 (Oct. 17, 1896): 488-491.
label: Description
content: “Dr. H. M. Alexander,” American Journal of Pharmacy 76 (Jan. 1904): 37-38.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Marietta
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William P. Evans
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07336
label: catalog number
content: M-07336
label: accession number
content: 217731
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vaccinator
label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Other Terms
content: Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 1 cm; 4 5/16 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 3/8 in; x 11.1125 cm x .9525 cm