American Frohse Anatomical Charts, Plate No. 5, Ear and Eye
American Frohse Anatomical Charts, Plate No. 5, Ear and Eye
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- Description
- Anatomical wall chart of a human eye and ear, with inscriptions that reads “AMERICAN FROHSE / ANATOMICAL CHARTS / EDITED, REVISED, / AND AUGMENTED / BY MAX BRODEL” and “Plate No. 5.” An inscription at the bottom reads “A. J. Nystrom & Co.; Publishers, Chicago.”
- Fritz Frohse (1871-1916), a physician affiliated with the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Berlin, developed a set of anatomical charts suitable for use in classrooms and medical offices. Max Brodel (1870-1941), a German-born medical illustrator at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, produced an American edition of these charts. These were available by 1918.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Anatomical Chart
- anatomical chart
- Other Terms
- Anatomical Chart; Teaching Material
- Date made
- after 1918
- copyright date
- 1918
- publisher
- A. J. Nystrom and Company
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- textile, cotton (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- buff (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- salmon (overall color)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 183 cm x 105 cm x 3 cm; 72 1/16 in x 41 11/32 in x 1 3/16 in
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 47 in x 3 3/4 in; 6.35 cm x 119.38 cm x 9.525 cm
- overall (unrolled, including rods):;
- ID Number
- 1991.0337.03
- catalog number
- 1991.0337.03
- accession number
- 1991.0337
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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