Dental Device
name: label: maker
content: Chayes Dental Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The “CHAYES / PATENT” inscription on this device refers to the Chayes Dental Instrument Co., a New York City firm founded by Herman E. S. Chayes (1879-1933), an immigrant from Eastern Europe.
label: Description
content: Ref: Who’s Who in American Jewry (New York, 1926), pp. 93-94.
label: Description
content: “DR. HERMAN E. S. CHAYES,” New York Times (July 4, 1933), p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. James E. Aiguier
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.260892.240
label: accession number
content: 260892
label: catalog number
content: 260892.240
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ?
label: Object Name
content: handpiece
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; x 8.255 cm x 4.445 cm