Surgical Set
name: label: maker
content: Tiemann, George
notes: label: Description
content: Small surgical set owned by Cornelius Thaddeus Shaffer (1847-1919), a Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and, briefly, president of the Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University, the oldest Historically Black University in the United States. Leonidas Berry, a 1924 graduate of Wilberforce, donated it to the Smithsonian.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: owner
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Leonidas H. Berry, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0406.02
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0406.02
label: accession number
content: 1986.0406
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surgical Set
label: Object Name
content: surgical set
label: Object Name
content: pocket case
label: Other Terms
content: Surgical Set; Surgical Set; General Surgery; Pocket Case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tortoise shell (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal. nickle (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7 cm x 13.5 cm x 2.5 cm; 2 3/4 in x 5 5/16 in x in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 13.6525 cm x 6.985 cm