Vibrator
date: label: date made
content: 1905-1921
name: label: maker
content: Lindstrom, Smith Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Advertisements boasted that the White Cross vibrator had a high grade motor, met the requirements of the medical profession, and was also suitable for family use. The inscription on this example reads "WHITE CROSS ELECTRIC VIBRATOR / MANUFACTURED BY / LINDSTROM, SMITH CO. / CHICAGO / VOLTS 100 A.C. & D.C. / NO. 96581 / MODEL 2 / CAUTION / DO NOT USE THIS VIBRATOR IN BATH TUB OR / WHEN THE BODY IS CONNECTED WITH A WATER, SEWER, OR GAS PIPE OR WHEN STANDING ON WET FLOOR."
label: Description
content: Ref: Lindstrom, Smith Co. ad for the Whitecross Electric Vibrator in Popular Mechanics (Jan. 1909), p. 145.
label: Description
content: Lindstrom, Smith Co., <i>Illustrated Catalog of the White Cross Electric Vibrator</i> (Chicago, 1918).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Warren G. Sharples
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0146.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0146
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0146.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vibrator
label: Object Name
content: vibrator
label: Other Terms
content: Vibrator; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall -box: 3 1/2 in x 9 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 23.495 cm x 18.415 cm