Figurine
name: label: maker
content: Land, Charles Henry
notes: label: Description
content: In 1954, having won the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh donated the $500 prize money to the School of Dental and Oral Surgery at Columbia University in honor of Charles Henry Land (1847–1922), an innovative dentist and his maternal grandfather. Lindbergh also donated several small items that Land had made for him. One was this small item with figures of a bird and a reptile, with an inscription on the back that reads "Experiement in Alundum firing by Dr. Charles H. Land, test for shrinkage, 1912-1915."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia Univeristy School of Dental and Oral Surgery and Charles A. Lindbergh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.258357.49
label: catalog number
content: 258357.49
label: accession number
content: 285357
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toy
label: Other Terms
content: Toy; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in; x 4.445 cm