Object Details
- Description
- Black hard rubber pessary with two curves, is slightly smaller in width at one end. The pessary is in a blue textured box with white floral pattern, dark blue print, and scroll text frame. The pessary was part of a midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
- ID Number
- 2012.0128.26
- accession number
- 2012.0128
- catalog number
- 2012.0128.26
- Object Name
- pessary in box
- pessary
- midwife's kit
- Physical Description
- hard rubber (part: pessary material)
- cardboard (container material)
- cotton (packaging material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 7.9375 cm x 5.715 cm
- in box: 8 cm x 5.75 cm x 2.5 cm; 3 5/32 in x 2 1/4 in x 31/32 in
- part: pessary: 7.75 cm x 5.5 cm x 2 cm; 3 1/16 in x 2 5/32 in x 25/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Midwife Kit
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Women's Health
- Medicine
- Record ID
- nmah_1422907
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-8b83-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
