Syringe
date: label: date made
content: 1890s
name: label: maker
content: S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Metal syringe with a graduated glass cylinder and several points. A label in the wooden box reads “THE S. S. WHITE / Dental Manufacturing Co. / Philadelphia, New York, / Boston, Chicago, Brooklyn, / Atlanta.” Samuel Stockton White (1822-1879) was a Philadelphia dentist who began manufacturing porcelain teeth in the 1840s and established the S. S. White Company soon thereafter. That firm became the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. in 1881, and opened a branch office in Atlanta in 1891.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.334
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.334
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Syringe Kit
label: Object Name
content: syringe kit
label: Other Terms
content: Syringe Kit; Hypodermic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (tip, abscess(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (needle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (ring material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, abscess(1) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (barrel, fenestrated material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (plunger material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tip, force material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 11.43 cm x 6.6675 cm