Star-Rite Therapeutic Lamp
name: label: maker
content: Fitzgerald Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Heat lamp in a cardboard box with “STAR-RITE / Therapeutic Lamp” and “STAR-RITE / VIM-RAY / FOR BEAUTY AND HEALTH / CATALOG NO. 650 / THE FITZGERALD MFG. CO. / TORRINGTON, CONN. / MADE IN U.S.A.” inscriptions. Some advertisements claimed that “The VIM RAY is not a therapeutic lamp, it’s a complete home health and beauty service and brings prompt relief from aches and pains.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Therapeutic Lamp,” American Exporter (May 1928), p. 101.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Torrington
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: 1990.0543.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0543
label: maker number
content: 650
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0543.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Heat Lamp
label: Object Name
content: therapeutic device
label: Object Name
content: heat lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (bulb material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (device material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue, periwinkle (device color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (device color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (device material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (device material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (container color)
label: Physical Description
content: ecru (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall, device: 18 cm x 19.5 cm; 7 3/32 in x 7 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored in box: 7 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 21.59 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 18.3 cm x 20.7 cm x 21 13/32 in; 7 7/32 in x 8 5/32 in x 54.356 cm