Object Details
- 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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- user
- City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Credit Line
- Gift of the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- 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
- Object Name
- syringe, hypodermic
- public health
