Dental Forceps
date: label: date made
content: 1887-1893
name: label: Associated Name
content: Truax, Charles
label: maker
content: Truax, Charles
notes: label: Description
content: Dental forceps with a “C. TRUAX & Co.” inscription. Charles Truax (1852-1918) established a surgical instrument firm in Chicago in 1887. The firm became Truax, Green & Co. circa 1893.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Doris H. Bratten (Mrs. Roscoe C. Bratten, D.D.S.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312608.010
label: catalog number
content: 312608.010
label: accession number
content: 312608
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental forceps
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 1 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in; 3.175 cm x 3.4925 cm x 19.685 cm