Dental Plaster
date: label: patent date
content: 1886-02-09
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the lid of this cardboard box reads in part “IMPROVED DENTAL / CAPSICUM PLASTER / 8 PLASTERS / PRICE $1.00 / PREPARED BY / FRANK B. DARBY, D.D.S. / 12? EAST WATER ST. ELMIRA, N.Y., U.S.A. / PATENTED FEB. 9, 1886.” The inventor and manufacturer was Franklin “Frank” Benjamin Darby (1846-1936).
label: Description
content: Ref: Frank B. Darby, “Dental Capsicum Plaster,” U.S. Patent 335,799 (Feb. 9, 1886).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Elmira
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-09110
label: catalog number
content: M-09110
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plasters, capsicum
label: Object Name
content: plasters, adhesive, dental
label: Other Terms
content: Plasters, Capsicum,; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 6.985 cm x 4.445 cm