Stereograph Card, Johnston Brothers Dental Depot
date: label: date made
content: 1872-1877
notes: label: Description
content: Stereograph card of the interior of the Johnston Brothers, Dental Depot, 812 Broadway, New York. The interior has a row of display top counters with ornate, glass-fronted shelving behind. The back of the card reads: JOHNSTON BROTHERS, / 812 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK, / Manufacture, and offer at Wholesale and Retail, their / "1000 FINE" GOLD FOIL; / TIN FOIL, Chemically Pure; / DENTAL ENGINE, "Morrison's;" / LIQUID NITROUS OXIDE, with Nickle-Plated Gasometer; / LIQUID NITROUS OXIDE, Portable, Surgeon's Case. / DEALERS IN / EVERY DESCRIPTION OF DENTAL GOOD.
label: Description
content: The Johnston Brothers were an American manufacturer and purveyor of dental office products in the late nineteenth century. Their store was located on Broadway in New York City, and their factory was located on Staten Island.
label: Description
content: According to Audrey B. Davis, in her introduction to the Samuel S. White Catalogue of Dental Instruments and Equipment (Norman Publishing 1995), Johnston Brothers was founded in 1865, and issued its first catalogue in 1881. A year earlier they were purchased by S.S. White and became a joint stock company (the Samuel Stockton White Dental Manufacturing Company, 1880). The Johnston Brothers factory on Staten Island produced a variety of instruments, dental office furniture, and appliances -- expanding the product line and profits of the White company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Dentistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert M. Vogel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0238.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0238
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0238.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.6 cm x 17 cm x .1 cm; 3 3/8 in x 6 11/16 in x 1/32 in