Dental Instruments (15)
name: label: maker
content: S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Fifteen dental instruments—scalers, chisels, and excavators—with pearl handles, made by S. S. White. These were used by Henry C. Register (1844-1921), a veteran of the Civil War, and a graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and the Jefferson Medical College. who practiced and taught dentistry in Philadelphia. Many items with pearl handles are found in S. S. White, Catalogue of Dental Materials (Philadelphia, 1877).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08080
label: catalog number
content: M-08080
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental instruments
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: average: 6 1/8 in x 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 15.5575 cm x 1.905 cm x 1.905 cm