Matriculation Ticket
date: label: associated dates
content: 1844 11 06 / 1844 11 06
label: associated dates
content: 1844 11 06 / 1844 11 06
notes: label: Description
content: William Thomas Green Morton (1819–1868) was an American dentist and physician who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. This ticket indicates that he matriculated at the Harvard University Medical School on Nov. 6, 1844.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge, Harvard University
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09596.01
label: accession number
content: 43052
label: catalog number
content: M-09596.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Matriculation Ticket
label: Object Name
content: matriculation ticket
label: Other Terms
content: Matriculation Ticket; Commemorative & Association Items
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: engraved (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.7 cm x 10.7 cm; 3 1/16 in x 4 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 3 in; 10.795 cm x 7.62 cm