Advertising Ruler
name: label: advertiser
content: Upjohn Company
notes: label: Description
content: Plastic ruler with an “E.K.G. / Rule / Compliments / of / the / UPJOHN COMPANY / Makers of / DIGITORA” and “Copyright 1935 / BY / ZOLTON T. WIRTSCHAFTER, M.D. / LOS ANGELES, CALIF” inscriptions. Frederick W. Heyl (1885-1968), a PhD chemist, developed a tablet named Digitora (developed from digitalis) for the treatment of heart disease. Zolton Tilson Wirtschafter (1899-1967) was born in Slovakia, immigrated to the United States as a child, studied and practiced medicine in Cleveland, moved to Los Angeles, and later served as Director of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Portland, and Associate Professor of Medicine of the University of Oregon Medical School.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1991.0675.29
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0675.29
label: accession number
content: 1991.0675
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ruler, E. K. G.
label: Object Name
content: promotional device, ruler
label: Other Terms
content: Ruler, E. K. G.; 3 Dimensional; Advertising Material
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 15 cm x 3.9 cm x .1 cm; 5 7/8 in x 1 9/16 in x 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 5 7/8 in; 3.81 cm x 14.9225 cm