Head Calipers
name: label: maker
content: C. H. Stoelting Company
notes: label: Description
content: Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914) was a French police officer who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement, creating an identification system based on physical measurements. These metal calipers, from the Psychology Department of Skidmore College, were designed for skull measurements, for identifying criminal types using the Bertillon scale. An inscription reads “C. H. Stoelting Co / Germany.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Psychology Department of Skidmore College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.311423.08
label: catalog number
content: 311423.08
label: accession number
content: 311423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tong, Head
label: Object Name
content: calipers
label: Other Terms
content: Tong, Head; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in x 9 in; 3.175 cm x 31.75 cm x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: extended: 13/16 in x 12 3/4 in x 12 9/16 in; 2.06375 cm x 32.385 cm x 31.90875 cm