Baby Bottle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1953
name: label: maker
content: Pyramid Rubber Company
notes: label: Description
content: Six-sided glass nursing bottle that can hold 8 oz. / 240 cc., that is graduated in ounces and cubic centimeters, that has an embossed “EVEN FLO” inscription, and that is equipped with a Dr. Griesinger rubber nipple and plastic screw cap with ring. The Pyramid Rubber Co. was established in 1920, and became Evenflo Co., Inc. in 1995. Walter H. Griesinger (ca. 1900-1965) was an orthodontist in Portland, Or.
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter H. Griesinger, “Nipple,” U.S. Design Patent 160,940 (Nov. 21, 1950).
label: Description
content: Walter H. Griesinger, “Baby Feeding Nipple,” U.S. Patent 2,537,583 (Jan. 9, 1951).
label: Description
content: Pyramid Rubber Co. ad for The Dr. Griesinger nipple in Modern Medicine (Feb. 15, 1953): 163.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Ohio, Ravenna
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Pyramid Rubber Company, through B. R. Frost, General Sales Manager; Accession 197802 (1953)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06593
label: catalog number
content: M-06593
label: accession number
content: 197802
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Infant Feeder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (cap material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (nipple material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.5 cm x 5.2 cm; 7 11/16 in x 2 1/16 in