Syringe

Description:

Glass and metal hypodermic syringe with an “IDEAL / CITY OF NEW YORK” inscription on the side, and a “487” serial number. The “EAST RUTHERFORD SYRINGES” inscription on the box refers a New Jersey firm that built a factory in the early 1930s, and that acquired a new facility in 1955, primarily for distributing syringes for the new Salk polio vaccine.

User: City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: New Jersey, East Rutherford

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Health & Medicine, The Antibody Initiative, Antibody Initiative: New York City Public Health Collections

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Credit Line: Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2017.0184.058Accession Number: 2017.0184Catalog Number: 2017.0184.058

Object Name: syringe, hypodermicpublic health

Physical Description: glass (overall material)metal, steel (overall material)Measurements: overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 in x 4 3/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 5.08 cm x 11.1125 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-83ba-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1845402

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