Surgical Set
date: label: date made
content: 1866-1880
name: label: maker
content: Gemrig, Jacob H.
notes: label: Description
content: Surgical set with a “J. R. GEMRIG” label in the lid, and a “Dr. C. C. Lee” inscription on a brass plate. Charles Carroll Lee (1839-1893) was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School who served as an assistant surgeon with the Union Army during the Civil War, and later moved to New York City. Jacob Gemrig was a German-American surgical instrument maker in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Charles Carroll Lee,” New York Times (May 12, 1893), p. 4.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marilyn Gould
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0829.01
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0829.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0829
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Amputation Set
label: Other Terms
content: Amputation Set; surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, velvet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, ebony (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.2 cm x 41.9 cm x 18.8 cm; 4 in x 16 1/2 in x 7 3/8 in