Dental Bleaching Outfit
notes: label: Description
content: Dental bleaching outfit based on the inventions of the dentist, Merrill Weir Hollingsworth (b. 1863). An inscription on the cardboard package reads “Cataphoric / Bleaching Outfit. / Patented December 29, 1896 / . . . D.R.G.M.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Merrill Weir Hollingsworth, “Dental Cataphoric Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 569,380 (Oct. 13, 1896), assigned to the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: Merrill W. Hollingsworth, “Appliance for Bleaching Teeth,” U.S. Patent 574,033 (Dec. 29, 1896), assigned to the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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-09548
label: catalog number
content: M-09548
label: accession number
content: 232230
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental bleach
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 12.065 cm x 12.065 cm