Colorized glass slide depicting a beach crowded with people swimming and sitting on benches. Marked with "523" and "Beseler Lantern Slide Co. Inc. 131 East 23D New York."
Glass slide depicting a large house in the background with a stream or canal in the foreground. Marked with "522" and "3283" and "DeWitt C. Wheeler, Inc. 120 and 122 West 31st St. New York"
Glass slide depicting four women standing at a laboratory bench lined with bottles of liquids. One woman pipettes. Marked with "100", "5571", " "DeWitt C. Wheeler, Inc. 120 and 122 West 31st St. New York"
Two piece cardboard box covered in gold-colored paper on the exterior and blue-colored on the interior sides. Deco-style design and lettering on top of box, "CURVFIT / THE / WOMAN'S / RAZOR," and an illustration of a woman in exotic robe shaving her armpit. Box contains a gold-finished metal safety razor with a curved head. "'CURVFIT'" / REG.U.S.PAT.OFF. imprinted on head of razor, and "PAT. FEB. 26 - 24 / OCT. 21 - 13" imprinted on inside of head. A small orange and black box of extra blades is included. An image of the woman shaving is on one side and an image of a woman in a bathing suit is on the other. The box has been opened but the cellophane wrapper remains. Four of the five original blades are present; each is individually wrapped and all are in a paper envelope labelled: CURVFIT / THE WOMAN'S RAZOR / 5--BLADES / Curvfit Sales Corp., 119 W. 23rd St., N.Y. The label on the inside cover of the razor box includes another image of the woman shaving with the text "Curved to Fit" below, along with an illustration of the razor. Text includes: "'Every Woman Tells Another,'" and "Nickel $1.50 / with / 5 extra blades." Directions are printed on the bottom inside of the box along with a plug for shaving cream: "Important / CURVFIT De Lux / SHAVING CREAM--Anti-/ septic--Softens the Hair."
Glass slide depicting a child wearing all white lying on an examination table. The child clutches a teddy bear while two doctors examine the child's leg. Marked with "586", "18426"
Glass slide depicting two men and a woman in a pharmacy stocked with bottles and graduated glassware, flasks and funnels. Marked with "96" and "2323", "Negative 96-1341", "DeWitt C. Wheeler, Inc. 120 and 122 West 31st St. New York"
Stereo Orthoptic, Model 1327, made by American Optical Co. The form was used in the early 1940s, to determine the success in remedying eye defects among aviators.
Howard A. Kelly (1858-1943), professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, described a cystoscope suitable for use in women in 1893. Ralph L. Traver, a physician in Bath, N.Y., gave this example to the Smithsonian in 1966.
Ref: Howard Kelly, “The Examination of the Female Bladder and the Catheterization of the Ureters Under Direct Inspection,” Johns Hopkins Bulletin 4 (November 1893): 101-102.
“Kelly’s Method of Examining the Female Urinary Organs,” in E. Hurry Fenwick, A Handbook of Clinical Electric-Light Cytoscopy (London, 1904), Chapter IV.
“Dr. Howard Kelly of Johns Hopkins,” New York Times (Jan. 13, 1943), p. 23.
