Bottle with stopper

Classification: 
Date: 
1860-1890
Medium: 
Glass, cork, paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. ( 8.6 x 5.4 x 3.2 cm )
Description: 
Colorless mold-blown glass bottle containing solidified yellow substance; wide cylindrical neck with prescription lip and ring around base; ovoid body with oval depression with printed paper label on front and six columns of pearls separated by vertical ribs on sides and back; oval foot; tax stamp affixed to base; cork stopper.
Object Number: 
Z.516
Marks: 
printed paper label: affixed to front of bottle: "SUPERIOR / POMADE / FOR THE / TOILET / KLEMM & CO. / PHILADELPHIA" printed tax stamp: affixed to base: "1 / CENT / 1 / U. S. . . . PROPRIETARY / ONE CENT"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1890
eMuseum Object ID: 
31585
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Prescription scale in case

Classification: 
Date: 
1830-1880
Medium: 
Wood, brass, other metal, string, textile
Dimensions: 
case: 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. ( 2.2 x 14.9 x 6.4 cm )
Description: 
Metal prescription scale with shallow, circular brass pans suspended with string from balance bar; in lozenge-shaped wooden case with hinged lid and fitted interior lined with pink and white textile.
Object Number: 
INV.501ab
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1880
eMuseum Object ID: 
31484
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Prescription scale and set of weights in case

Classification: 
Date: 
1830-1880
Medium: 
Brass, other metal, textile, string, cardboard, paint
Dimensions: 
case: 5/8 x 6 1/4 x 2 5/8 in. ( 1.6 x 15.9 x 6.7 cm )
Description: 
Metal prescription scale with two shallow, circular brass pans suspended with string from balance bar; in lozenge-shaped black painted metal case with hinged lid, with the base of box lined with black wool and the lid lined with padded white silk; small circular cardboard box found inside case contains seventeen square brass weights of varying size.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Isabella Vaché Cox
Object Number: 
1938.444a-u
Marks: 
handwritten in ink: on lining of lid: "ms(?) No 1280"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1880
eMuseum Object ID: 
31439
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Prescription scale

Classification: 
Date: 
1800-1850
Medium: 
Metal, string
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3/4 x 7 x 3 in. ( 1.9 x 17.8 x 7.6 cm )
Description: 
Metal prescription scale with two shallow circular pans attached to balance bar with string (one now detached).
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Richard H. Gosman
Object Number: 
1946.333ab
Gallery Label: 
According to the accession records, this apothecary scale was used by the donor's great-grandfather, Dr. Andrew Van Allen.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1850
eMuseum Object ID: 
31255
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Bandage

Classification: 
Date: 
1943
Medium: 
Cotton
Dimensions: 
overall (in original bundle): 2 x 8 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.
Description: 
Bundle of white cotton gauze tied with cotton string, with commemorative certificate.
Credit Line: 
Gift of the New-York Historical Society Unit of the Red Cross, 1943
Object Number: 
INV.11911ab
Gallery Label: 
This bundle of gauze was the millionth made by the New-York Historical Society Unit of the Red Cross on March 25, 1943, in less than six months of work.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1943
eMuseum Object ID: 
31141
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine box

Classification: 
Date: 
1820-1870
Medium: 
Metal
Dimensions: 
Overall: 1 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 4.4 x 10.8 x 6.4 cm )
Description: 
Rectangular sheet metal box with hinged lid with embossed inscriptions.
Object Number: 
Z.1508
Marks: 
embossed: on lid: "PREVENTIVE AND CURE / FOR THE / YELLOW FEVER / SOLD / WHOLESALE AND RETAIL / ONLY BY THE / PROPRIETORS AGENT / MR GOLDING / No 42 CORNHILL / LONDON"
Gallery Label: 
This box originally contained medicine that was supposed to prevent and cure yellow fever, one of the deadliest infectious diseases of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unfortunately for patients, medicines for yellow fever were useless at best and poisonous at worst. Doctors did not learn how to prevent yellow fever until 1937, and there is no cure even today.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1870
eMuseum Object ID: 
31118
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Bleeding bowl

Classification: 
Date: 
1840-1860
Medium: 
Iron
Dimensions: 
Overall: 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in. ( 20 x 13 cm )
Description: 
Slightly flared straight-sided basin with inscribed lines on interior, pierced handle.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Object Number: 
1920.128
Marks: 
inscribed: on handle: "BELLEVUE" inscribed: on base: "T. CLARK/1P"
Gallery Label: 
This bowl was used for blood letting.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1860
eMuseum Object ID: 
30809
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Set of surgical instruments in case

Classification: 
Date: 
ca. 1776
Medium: 
Wood, metal, horn, tortoise shell, papier-mâché
Dimensions: 
Overall: 3 1/2 x 20 x 5 3/4 in. ( 8.9 x 50.8 x 14.6 cm )
Description: 
Rectangular wooden box containing set of eight surgical tools, including a saw, a knife with long curved blade, a knife with narrow straight blade, a scalpel, a folding knife in papier-mâché case, a folding knife with tortoise shell handle, a flat metal instrument roughly the size and shape of a tongue depressor, and a small two-pronged metal tool with flat circular head.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Ethelwyn Bradish and Mrs. Mary Bradish Call in memory of their father, Walter Horace Bradish
Object Number: 
1957.262a-k
Marks: 
impressed: on blade of straight knife: "SHARP[?]" impressed: on blade of scalpel: "SHOT / WELL" impressed: on blade of folding knife with tortoise shell handle: crown above a star
Gallery Label: 
According to the accession records, these instruments were used by Dr. James Bradish, great-great-grandfather of the donors, at the time of the American Revolution. In 1896, the original blades, which were badly rusted, were nickel-plated for preservation.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1776
eMuseum Object ID: 
30741
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine chest

Classification: 
Date: 
1870-1925
Medium: 
Leather, wood, glass, textile, paper, cork
Dimensions: 
box: 2 x 6 3/4 x 4 in. (5.1 x 17.1 x 10.2 cm)
Description: 
Rectangular wooden box (medicine chest) covered with black leather, with flat lid that lifts off, and latch; inside of lid covered with orange velvet, with label at center; inside edges of box stamped in gold with geometric pattern; interior divided into shallow square wooden compartments, with space to side with circular slots cut out for round bottles; box contains 66 colorless glass vials with round bases, 60 with corks arranged in alphabetical order according to name of remedy stamped on cork or printed on paper wrapper around neck, three larger round colorless glass bottles, two with corks, also with name of substance printed on paper wrapper around neck.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Isabella Vaché Cox
Object Number: 
1938.440
Marks: 
stamped: in gold on inside of lid: "SMITH'S/HOMEOPATHIC/PHARMACY/NEW-YORK." stamped: on tops of corks for vials: "Platina"; "Rheum"; "Opium" [each cork stamped with different name] printed: on paper wrapper around neck or body of vials: "Platina 6"; "Rh
Gallery Label: 
According to accession records, this medicine chest belonged to John Vaché Cox. As a young man he was employed by Prall and Ray, a wholesale drug firm in New York. He later became a drug broker and a mercantile broker.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1925
eMuseum Object ID: 
28709
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Medicine chest

Classification: 
Date: 
1880-1900
Medium: 
Wood, brass, glass, leather, textile, paper, cork
Dimensions: 
box: 3 1/8 x 11 1/4 x 8 in. (7.9 x 28.6 x 20.3 cm)
Description: 
Rectangular wooden box (medicine chest) with flat, hinged lid, oval brass plaque at center of lid, and brass keyhole surround; inside of lid covered with red leather, with label at center; inside of box lined in red velvet with set of shallow square wooden compartments built in, with seven circular slots for round bottles in front, and compartment to side covered in red velvet; box contains 92 colorless glass vials with square bases and round corks arranged in alphabetical order according to name of remedy stamped on cork or printed on paper wrapper around neck, one slightly larger vial with square base and no cork and 5 round colorless glass bottles with glass stoppers, also with name of substance printed on paper wrapper around neck; several bottles still with liquids inside.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Helen W. Wright
Object Number: 
1956.128
Marks: 
stamped: in gold on label affixed to inside of lid: "BOERICKE & TAFEL,/Homeopathic/PHARMACY,/145 Grand St., New-York." stamped: on top of corks for vials: "Spigelia/anth."; "Spongia/tosta."; "Phytolacc./dec." [each cork stamped with different name] prin
Gallery Label: 
According to accession records, this medicine chest was used by Reverend and Mrs. John R. Wright of Jersey City, NJ, parents of the donor.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1900
eMuseum Object ID: 
28707
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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