spectacles, bifocal
notes: label: Description
content: Metal hinged case with black textured covering and black velvet lining. Case contains one pair of gold-colored wire frame, bifocal eyeglass. Label affixed to inside of lid: MAURICE C. WENTZ, M.D. / EYE, EAR, NOSE / AND THROAT / YORK. --PENNA. The case also includes a pink glass cleaning cloth (Kleeno-Glass-Kloth) with Wentz's name, address, and office hours printed on it. There is a patent date impressed on the bottom of the case under an "A" in a double circle: PAT FEB ? [year illegible].
label: Description
content: Wentz served as a radiologist (or roentgenologist) in WWI and afterwards had an Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat practice in York, Pennsylvania.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, York
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ann Webster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0139.10
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0139.10
label: accession number
content: 2016.0139.
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectacles, bifocal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass; metal; fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.8 cm x 13.5 cm x 5.6 cm; 23/32 in x 5 5/16 in x 2 7/32 in