Object Details
- Enders, John F.
- Description (Brief)
- Wood rack holds 6 small glass flasks. Flasks have handwritten labels on pieces of adhesive tape and are sealed with tape. Each contains a small amount of yellowish liquid (residue of original cultures of poliovirus in human embryonic and muscle tissue).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
- 1940s
- ID Number
- MG.221419.15
- accession number
- 221419
- catalog number
- 221419.15
- Object Name
- biological
- virus cultures, polio
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- wood (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.5 cm x 37 cm x 10 cm; 3 3/8 in x 14 9/16 in x 3 15/16 in
- overall, rack: 2 in x 14 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 37.465 cm x 9.8425 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Polio
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1318629
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-03c7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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