Hypodermic Needles
name: label: maker
content: Max Wocher & Son
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard box containing twenty-two Luer-type stainless steel hypodermic needles. The inscription on the box reads “THE MAX WOCHER & SON CO. / SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS / CINCINNATI, O., U.S.A.” Max Wocher was a German immigrant who began manufacturing surgical instruments in Cincinnati in 1837. The firm became the Max Wocher & Son Company in 1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Robert M. Leonard in memory of Dr. Robert M. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0675.21
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0675.21
label: accession number
content: 1991.0675
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Needles, Hypodermic, Box of
label: Object Name
content: needle set
label: Object Name
content: syringe
label: Other Terms
content: Needles, Hypodermic, Box of; Hypodermic Needles; Drug Administrators
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1 cm x 6.7 cm x 5.3 cm; 3/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 3/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 6.985 cm x .9525 cm