Dental Excavator
name: label: maker
content: American Dental Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Dental excavator with an "AMERICAN DENTAL MF'G. CO." inscription. That firm was established in New York City, perhaps in 1884; established a branch office in Chicago a few years later; and was sold to the Wilmington Dental Manufacturing Co. in 1890. This instrument belonged to Greene Vardiman Black (1836-1915), an influential dentist who taught at the University of Iowa and then at Northwestern University.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Northwestern University Dental School
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.203911.12
label: accession number
content: 203911
label: catalog number
content: 203911.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: excavator
label: Object Name
content: dental instrument
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 11 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 29.845 cm x 1.905 cm