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Description:: Scale. Large, simple equal arm balance; central column support emerging from a molded, decorative cast iron base; bronze knife edge beam has central bronze needle to indicate scale balance; both are attached to column support by a decorative cast iron piece that projects and hooks down from column; scale parts include one piece of brass hardware...
Contributor:: The Henry Troemner Company (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Created:: 1850 - 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 6
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Hindoostan.

Description:: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:9,500,000. Relief shown by hachures."Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1850 by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. in the Clerk's office of the District court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Inset: Delta of the Ganges.
Creator:: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.
Created:: 1850?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Last Updated:: 2018-01-18

Description:: Obstetrical forceps. Steel body; curved, fenestrated blades; splayed, short shank; lateral screw lock; hooked steel handles. Invented by Hugh Lenox Hodge (1796-1873) who was Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women at the University of Pennsylvania.
Creator:: Hodge, Hugh L."(Hugh Lenox)" 1796-1873
Contributor:: Max Wocher & Son (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Created:: 1850 - 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 3
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Description:: Artificial leech. Wooden box with brown leather exterior, brown velvet lined interior, and purple silk lined lid; kit contains a cylindrical syringe made of clear glass and a scarifier; inside the syringe is a threaded metal rod attached to a cork with metal cap on one end, and a metal wing nut on the other which can be adjusted to create a vacu...
Creator:: Heurteloup, N. (Nicolas), Baron, 1750-1812
Contributor:: Heurteloup, N. (Nicolas), Baron
Created:: 1850 - 1880?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 5
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Description:: Address to the numbers and friends of the Methodist Episcopal church signed: Elijah Hedding, Beverly Waugh, Tho. A. Morris, L.L. Hamline, Edmund S. Janes. ""Hymns for Sunday-schools, youth, and children"": (48 p.), at end of main work.
Creator:: Methodist Episcopal Church
Created:: 1850
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Music Library.
Page Count:: 794
Last Updated:: 2018-08-24

Description:: Address to the numbers and friends of the Methodist Episcopal church signed: Elijah Hedding, Beverly Waugh, Tho. A. Morris, L.L. Hamline, Edmund S. Janes. ""Hymns for Sunday-schools, youth, and children"": (48 p.), at end of main work.
Creator:: Methodist Episcopal Church
Created:: 1850
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Music Library.
Page Count:: 816
Last Updated:: 2018-08-24

Description:: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:12,500,000 (E 68°09'00"--E 92°41'00"/N 32°53'00"--N 6°45'00"). Shows Independent States, All under British Protection, and British Possessions. Relief shown by hachures. In upper right corner:"27.""W. & R. Chambers London & Edinburgh."
Creator:: W. & R. Chambers
Created:: 1850
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Last Updated:: 2018-01-18

Description:: Shows roads, railways, British possessions, subsidiary states, and protected and independent areas.
Creator:: Wyld, James, 1812-1887.
Created:: 1850?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Last Updated:: 2018-01-18

Description:: Surgical set. Red velvet lined wooden box with lid, two metal hinges, divider with manufacturer's mark, and bilateral sliding lock; top surface of box has an engraved plaque; lid houses one tourniquet, one aneurysm needle both by George Tiemann three forceps, two retractors, two Liston's knives, two catling knives, one metacarpal saw with moveab...
Contributor:: J.H. Gemrig (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Created:: 1850 - 1870?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 64
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14

Description:: Scale. Large, simple equal arm balance; central column is made of bras with a four-footed iron base; brass, knife-edge beamscale hangs from decorative wrought-iron support atop the brass column; knife edge beam has central needle to indicate scale balance; scale parts include a large brass arched pan support with an iron equal-arm cross at the ...
Contributor:: John White & Son (Auchtermuchty, Scotland)
Created:: 1850 - 1900?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Page Count:: 15
Last Updated:: 2025-03-14