Braided Umbilical Tape
name: label: maker
content: Jeffrey-Fell Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical glass bottle with screw top containing 20 yards of white braided (carbonized) tape wound inside and protruding fromthe top. 20 yards. Tape is fed through a small hole in a cork that is sealed in the neck of bottle, tan paper label on the bottle has black printing. The tape was part of a midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Midwife Kit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0128.23
label: accession number
content: 2012.0128
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0128.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tape, umbilical
label: Object Name
content: umbilical tape
label: Object Name
content: midwife's kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: plant fiber (part: tape material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: container: 7 cm x 3.5 cm; 2 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 3.5 cm; 3 17/32 in x 1 3/8 in