Syringe

Object Details

City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

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.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

ID Number

2017.0184.058

accession number

2017.0184

catalog number

2017.0184.058

Object Name

syringe, hypodermic

public health

Physical Description

glass (overall material)

metal, steel (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 in x 4 3/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 5.08 cm x 11.1125 cm

place made

United States: New Jersey, East Rutherford

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National Museum of American History

Record ID

nmah_1845402

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-83ba-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa