Dental Operating Unit
date: label: associated dates
content: 1986 04 18
notes: label: Description
content: Dental operating unit with an inscription that reads "...SER No 14064; PAT MAY 7 1918 . . . JAN 1 1929 / CASTLE / LIGHTS / TYPE 5A... / ... ROCHESTER NEW YORK." This was owned and used by Henry K. Minami (1908-1964), a Japanese-American dentist from California who, after a stint in an internment camp during World War II, moved to Washington and worked for the Department of Public Health.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Henry K. Minami, Dentist in Health Dept.,” Washington Post (June 29, 1964), p. B3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Japanese Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Dentistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Claire F. Minami
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0453.01
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0453.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0453
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Operatory
label: Other Terms
content: Operatory; Dental Unit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, chromium (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: approximate: 98 cm x 120 cm x 40 cm; 38 9/16 in x 47 1/4 in x 15 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 92 in x 39 in x 73 in; 233.68 cm x 99.06 cm x 185.42 cm