Band Matrices
name: label: maker
content: S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the lid of the cardboard box reads in part “DR. TRUMAN W. BROPHY . . . BAND MATRICES / PATENTED . . . / THE S. S. WHITE DENTAL MANUFACTURING CO. / . . .” Truman W. Brophy (ca. 1875-1928), a prominent dentist in Chicago, was a graduate of the Rush Medical School and of the Chicago School of Dental Surgery.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Dr. Brophy’s Band Matrices in The Dental Cosmos 28 (1886).
label: Description
content: "Truman Brophy, Famous Chicago Surgeon, Is Dead," Chicago Tribune (Feb. 5, 1928), p. 5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.289
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.289
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ?
label: Object Name
content: band matrices
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13/16 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 5/16 in; 2.032 cm x 8.89 cm x 3.302 cm