surgical set
name: label: maker
content: George P. Pilling and Son Company
notes: label: Description
content: Ophthalmic surgical set used by Nelson Franklin Wetmore (1851-1926), a physician in Wisconsin and father of Alexander Wetmore, the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. An inscription in the lid reads “EYE CASE / PAR 914 M.M.D. 1917 / G. P. PILLING & SON CO. / PHILADELPHIA / CONTRACT DATED JUNE 15TH 1917.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Margaret Wetmore Harlan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0347.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0347
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0347.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surgical set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.8 cm x 33.5 cm x 20 cm; 2 11/16 in x 13 3/16 in x 7 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 13 1/4 in x 8 in; 7.3025 cm x 33.655 cm x 20.32 cm