Hypodermic Syringe
name: label: user
content: City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
notes: label: Description
content: Glass hypodermic syringe with an “IDEAL / CITY OF NEW YORK” inscription on the side, and “PROPERTY CITY OF NEW YORK” and a “8792” serial number. The capacity is 2 cc. The “EAST RUTHERFORD SYRINGES” inscription on the box refers a New Jersey firm that built a factory in the early 1930s, and that acquired a new facility in 1955, primarily for distributing syringes for the new Salk polio vaccine.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, East Rutherford
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0184.057
label: accession number
content: 2017.0184
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0184.057
objectType: label: Object Name
content: syringe, hypodermic
label: Object Name
content: public health
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm; 2 3/4 in