This patent model demonstrates an invention for a method of printing large music charts for educational purposes; the invention was granted patent number 78855. The type was made of wood. Each note came with its part of the staff lines, and with shoulders that interlocked and overlapped with those of its neighbors, to produce a continuous line of music.
Pre-1863 design. Wool bunting pennant flag. White field with a blue border at the hoist edge. In the center of the flag is a red five-point star applique. White heading of bast fiber. All stitching done by hand.
This Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) cap was worn by John Doran-Donahue during organization meetings. The GAR and its counterpart, the United Confederate Veterans, were organizations in which veterans and their families joined to remember the dead and salute the living. These groups were an important facet of veteran life that supplanted wartime camaraderie.
This portable scale was made by Chen Shengtai in Guangdong Province, China, during the mid-1800s. The California gold rush prompted thousands of Chinese laborers to seek their fortune, and many brought their own weights and scales with them. This scale is a steelyard-type balance that uses a pivot point and counterweight moved along the arm on the arm to weigh the substance on the pan. It consists of a rod marked with several weight points, several pivot points to hold on to, a counterweight to move along the rod, and a pan attached to the rod with four strings. The scale could be disassembled and stored inside a small, wooden, paddle-shaped case.
The practice of lavage was popular in the late nineteenth century. Stomach and enema pumps were used to wash out the stomach as well as for the administration of medicinals for every imaginable type of ailment from gastritis to consumption to cancer. Sometimes plain water was used; often various medicinals were added such as bicarbonate of soda, carbolic acid, or tincture of myrrh.
This instrument was made by Vanwyck W. Brinckerhoff of New York who was active from 1856 to 1869. The case is made of mahogany, and has a brass lock and sliding closure. The brass escutcheon on the lid is engraved "U.S.A. HOSPT DEPT". The interior of the case is lined with red velvet. The brass pump has a wooden handle, three ivory and brass nozzles, two tubes and a wooden mouth gag.
This set is similar to one illustrated in the 1889 edition of the George Tiemann & Co., surgical catalogue American Armamentarium Chirurgicum on page 293.
Wool bunting pennant flag. White field with a red border around all three sides. In the center of the flag is blue five-point star applique. Heading constructed of bast fiber. Hand-stitched flat-felled seams.
