Collection Highlights
Edwin Booth as Hamlet
Date:
1870-1879
Object Number:
PR.104.3
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Set of surgical instruments in case
Object Number:
1957.262a-k
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 )
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
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.
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.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Ethelwyn Bradish and Mrs. Mary Bradish Call in memory of their father, Walter Horace Bradish
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
