Artificial Eyes
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Box of artificial eyes, with a label in the lid that reads “PROF. JAMES T. DAVIS / 127 EAST 15 ST. / NEW YORK.” James T. Davis (1841-1899), who apparently followed in the footsteps of his father, advertised as “Inserter and only Maker of the Improved Artificial Human Eye, acknowledged to be the only correct imitation of nature in the world. Established 1849. Refers to the principal Oculists in the United States.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Artificial Human Eyes. How They Are Manufactured and Where,” New York Times (Feb. 21, 1874), p. 4.
label: Description
content: James T. Davis ad in The Trow Directory Co.’s Business Directory of New York City 43 (1890), p. 33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Tesseract
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0310.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0310
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0310.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial eyes
label: Object Name
content: eyes, artificial, set
label: Object Name
content: prosthesis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (eyes material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 13 5/16 in x 6 5/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 33.8455 cm x 16.8275 cm