Dental Floss Holder
notes: label: Description
content: The donor identified this as Dr. A. P. Merrill’s dental floss holder. Alfred P. Merrill was a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College who established a practice in New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: Alfred P. Merrill, “Dental Floss Carriers,” U.S. Patent 213,997 (April 8, 1879).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09559
label: catalog number
content: M-09559
label: accession number
content: 232230
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental floss holder
label: Object Name
content: dental coll object
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/16 in x 1/2 in; 8.128 cm x 1.27 cm