Seabury's Sanitary Pocket Cuspidor
name: label: patentee
content: Wyman, G. R.
label: maker
content: Seabury & Johnson
notes: label: Description
content: Seabury's Sanitary Pocket Cuspidor, Absolutely Waterproof and Burnable, “As devised by Major D. M. Appel, Surgeon, U.S. Army” and “Patented by G. R. Wyman, U.S.A. / Pat. No. 621,732.” George Seabury was a founding partner of Seabury & Johnson, a firm of pharmaceutical chemists established in New York in 1873. Daniel M. Appel (1854-1914) was an Army surgeon who focused his care on soldiers with consumption (aka tuberculosis).
label: Description
content: Ref: George W. Wyman, “Merchandise Sample-Case,” U.S. Patent 621,732 (March 21, 1899).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: Tuberculosis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0291.07
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0291.07
label: accession number
content: 1990.0291
label: patent number
content: 621,732
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sputum cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: orange (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.3 cm x 8.7 cm x 1.5 cm; 3 1/4 in x 3 7/16 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 8.89 cm x 8.5725 cm