City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
ID Number
2017.0184.058
accession number
2017.0184
catalog number
2017.0184.058
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.
City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
ID Number
2017.0184.057
accession number
2017.0184
catalog number
2017.0184.057
Description
Glass hypodermic syringe with an “IDEAL / CITY OF NEW YORK” inscription on the side, and “PROPERTY CITY OF NEW YORK” and a “8792” serial number. The capacity is 2 cc. 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.