Thumb forceps. Tweezer-style forceps made of nickel-plated metal with serrated handles, tapered, rounded jaws, and horizontal ribbing on interior of jaws.
Created:
1900 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Thumb forceps. Tweezer-style forceps made of chrome-plated metal with serrated handles, tapered, rounded jaws, and horizontal ribbing on interior of jaws. Includes manufacturer markings: "CHROME -- U.S.A."
Created:
1920 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Thumb forceps. Tweezer-style forceps with exterior ribbing; tweezers bow out at handles, then narrow at jaws; jaws are tapered and rounded with interior ribbing and three teeth at tips.
Created:
1930 - 1970?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Thumb lancet. Lancet with small double-sided blade with tortoise shell sheath; item's case is made of black and purple leather lined cardboard with embossed seven-pointed stars; includes manufacturer markings:"EVANS -- OLD CHANGE -- LONDON"
Contributor:
R. O. Evans and Company (London, England)
Created:
1783 - 1850
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
In 1859, the Upper Bari Doab Canals, off taking from the river Ravi were improved and opened from Modhupur Headworks in what is now Gurdaspur District, Punjab, India. Tibri is also in Gurdaspur.
Created:
1900 - 1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Combining tie and dye and block printing is very difficult to do well. Item http://purl.umn.edu/201411 has the same motif but with a different color palate.
Combining tie and dye and block printing is very difficult to do well. Item http://purl.umn.edu/201228 has the same motif but with a different color palate.
Tie dye; blue irregular ovals in waves on a purple background; dyed on commercial cloth with grids; strips sewn together by machine. Color: purple and turquoise
Amputation set. Red velvet lined mahogany wooden box with lid and three metal hinges; top surface of box has an engraved metal plaque on top; front of box has a lock and key enclosure; lid houses slide-catch artery forceps, trepanning elevator and raspatory, and one Hey's saw in a form fitted compartment; also included in box: four scalpels, fi...
Contributor:
George Tiemann & Co (New York, New York)
Created:
1886 - 1888?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Tonsillotome. Long, slender metal instrument with scissor handles at 90 degrees to body of instrument; distal end of instrument is oval-shaped and fenetrated; fenestrated blade slides backward from distal end of instrumentwhen scissor handles are in closed position.
Created:
1880 - 1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Cover illustration for the monthly journal TIE VAPAUTEEN [Road to Freedom], supported by the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) and published locally in Duluth, Minnesota.
Contributor:
The Workers Socialist Publishing Company, 24 No. Lake Ave, Duluth, Minn.
Created:
1930-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Men and women seated at long tables, set with food and drink. Tifereth B'nai Jacob was referred to as the "Elwood Shul" because of it's location on Elwood Avenue. There was a striking concentration of Jewish community life around the Elwood Shul, including the Emanuel Cohen Community Center and the Jewish Sheltering Home, as well as several othe...
Created:
1940?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
The wedding of Harry Bear and Lenore Smith on Sunday, December 23, 1951 at Tifereth Israel in Duluth Minnesota. Identified in the photograph are, left to right: piano singer Rosalind Laskin, bridesmaid Peryl Finsky, best man Ny Bear, groom Harry Bear, bride Lenore Smith, Rabbi Benson Skoff, bridesmaid Miriam Smith, bridesmaid Sylvia Fink. In the...
Created:
1951
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department set up this telegraph workshop at Alipore, Calcutta in early 1855 as a repair workshop, and gradually it started production of Telegraph and Telecom equipment. This workshop supplied Telegraph/Telecom materials throughout India (including the territory of Burma prior to 1937). This is one of a set of 45 p...
Created:
1920 - 1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.