Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1940-1968
notes: label: Description
content: The obverse of this bronze medal has a portrait bust facing ¾ right and “ALFRED C. FONES MEMORIAL MEDAL 1940.” The reverse has a woman in flowing robes with arms outstretched, and “CONNECTICUT / STATE / DENTAL / ASS’N / FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN THE ART / AND SCIENCE OF DENTISTRY/ DR. JOHN OPPIE McCALL / 1968.” Alfred Civilion Fones (1869-1938) was a Connecticut dentist and founder of the first school of dental hygiene. John Oppie McCall (1880-1978) was the director of a dental clinic in New York City.
label: Description
content: Ref: S. Sorin, “John Oppie McCall pioneer in periodontology, dead at 98,” New York State Dental Journal 44 (1978): 207.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Dentistry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J.O. McCall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0643.02
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0643.02
label: accession number
content: 1984.0643
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: medal: .5 cm x 8.7 cm; 3/16 in x 3 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 5.2 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm; 2 1/16 in x 5 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in