retractor; surgical instrument
notes: label: Description
content: This object is one of over 700 medically related objects used on the set of the television show M*A*S*H. Most of these items are authentic medical instruments, supplies, and equipment from the 1950s.
label: Description
content: M*A*S*H was an award-winning television show based on the bestselling novel and Oscar winning motion picture film of the same title. It portrayed the lives of doctors and nurses assigned to a fictitious medical unit, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, based in Uijeongbu, Korea during the 1950-1953 war. The program was initially broadcast from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983.
label: Description
content: After the show ended in 1983, Twentieth Century Fox donated material from the two major sets, the “Swamp” and the “Operating Theater,” to the museum, along with scripts, photographs, and interviews with individuals who served in MASH units in Korea and Vietnam. See accessions 1983.0095, 1985.0335, 1988.0748, 1988.3163, and archival collection NMAH.AC.0117, for further MASH material.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: M*A*S*H Television Series
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Twentieth Century Fox
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0252.478
label: accession number
content: 1985.0252
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0252.478
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps
label: Object Name
content: retractor
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 11.3 cm x 1.8 cm; 6 11/16 in x 4 7/16 in x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 17.145 cm x 8.89 cm