Tongue Holder
notes: label: Description
content: Tongue holder associated with Josiah Foster Flagg (1828-1903), a Philadelphia dentist, anatomical artist, pioneer porcelain experimenter, and founder of the Boston School of Design for Women. The handle seems to be ebony.
label: Description
content: Ref: S. S. White, Catalogue of Dental Materials (Philadelphia, 1876), pp. 196 and 213.
label: Description
content: William Trueman, “J. Foster Flagg, D.D.S.,” The International Dental Journal 25 (1904): 72-83.
label: Description
content: “Josiah Foster Flagg, M.D., D.D.S.,” in Charles R. E. Koch, ed., History of Dental Surgery (Chicago, 1909), vol. 3, pp. 123-128.
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 University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08332
label: catalog number
content: M-08332
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental coll object
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 in x 10 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm x 26.67 cm