Phimosis forceps. Heavy, scissor-style forceps; loop handles and long, straight, robust shanks; straight heavy blades that are rounded on the outside and flat on the inside; the edges of one blade have serrated teeth; both blades have rectangular fenestration; pin catch at both top and bottom portions of blade; dual rectangular bard slide out be...
Contributor:
D.W. Kolbé & Son (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Created:
1851 - 1878?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Bone curette. Instrument has cupped, fenestrated, circular blade; shank is tapered near blade and widens out near handle; handle is made from cross-hatched ebony with hexagonal facets. Includes manufacturer markings:"TRUAX & CO."
Creator:
Wülfing-Lüer, Hermann Adolph,"(1836 - 1909)
Contributor:
Chas. Truax & Co
Created:
1884 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Bone curette. Instrument has cupped, fenestrated, circular blade; shank is tapered near blade and widens out near handle; handle is made from cross-hatched ebony with hexagonal facets.
Creator:
Wülfing-Lüer, Hermann Adolph,"(1836 - 1909)
Created:
1870 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Hypodermic syringe. Black cardboard box with white trim; box includes 1 all glass syringe, 1 tablet vial, 2 hypodermic needles, and 11 cleaning wires; syringe has a luer slip-style tip, glass barrel and plunger, and a metal finger grip attachment with spring; syringe barrel is marked with measurments up to 1 1/2 CC; tablet vial is yellowed glass...
Contributor:
Becton-Dickinson (Rutherford, New Jersey)
Created:
1897 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Lue was born in 1945 in Xiangnan, Zieng Khouang, Laos. He fought against the communists in the "Secret War" in Laos. When the communists took over the country, he left and came to the United States in 1979.
Creator:
Lee, Lue
Contributor:
Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ludwig Draeger decided to buy a farm in 1883. Over a century later, the farm is still in my family and represents the most influential object we have that has been passed down from each generation.
Creator:
Panning, Brice
Created:
2018-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Uterine elevator. Probe-like device with a rotating tip attached to a round wheel about three-fourths of the way up the probe rod; cylindrical wooden handle with 6 facets on proximal end of instrument; small wheel with lever attached to the bottom end of the probe rod. Uterine elevators were used to adjust the positioning of the uterus during su...
Creator:
Ludlam, R."(Reuben)" 1831-1899
Created:
1880 - 1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Lucy Smith (born Lucy Kreisler) was born on June 15, 1933 in Kraców, Poland. She was six years old when the German army occupied Poland. Lucy had to leave school after one month of attendance because education was no longer allowed for Jewish children. After many other indignities she was put in the ghetto where she and her mother hid from the N...
Creator:
de la Concha, Felix
Created:
2013
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
