Surgical Set
date: label: Date made
content: 1862-1865
name: label: maker
content: Hernstein, Hermann
label: maker
content: Hermann Hernstein & Son
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this surgical set read “U.S.A. HOP. DEPT.” and “H. Hernstein and Son / 393 Broadway, New York.” Hermann Hernstein (1817-) was a German surgical instrument maker who came to the United States in the early 1840s.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gustave and Phyllis Sokol
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1103.01-.026
label: accession number
content: 1977.1103
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surgical Set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 17 1/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 10.16 cm x 43.815 cm x 19.685 cm