Box. Slim rectangular box or platform with long and slender drawer that has three compartments, one about 2/3rds the size the the drawer and two smaller compartments with rounded, concave bottoms; drawer hass brass drawer pull.
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Cachet mold. Rectangular wooden board with rounded corners and beveled edges; 12 evenly shaped holes in a 2 x 6 pattern; holes contain two sets of stepped concentric circles. This device was a simplified version of patented cachet making apparatuses such as the Checheteur Limousin or Chapireau's Cacheteur, and was intended to be used with a smal...
Created:
1890 - 1930?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Cachet mold. Rectangular wooden board with rounded corners and beveled edges; 12 evenly shaped holes in a 2 x 6 pattern; holes contain two sets of stepped concentric circles. This device was a simplified version of patented cachet making apparatuses such as the Checheteur Limousin or Chapireau's Cacheteur, and was intended to be used with a smal...
Created:
1890 - 1930?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Cachet mold. Rectangular wooden board with rounded corners and beveled edges; 12 evenly shaped holes in a 2 x 6 pattern; holes contain two sets of stepped concentric circles. This device was a simplified version of patented cachet making apparatuses such as the Checheteur Limousin or Chapireau's Cacheteur, and was intended to be used with a smal...
Created:
1890 - 1930?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Cachet mold. Rectangular wooden board with rounded corners and beveled edges; 12 evenly shaped holes in a 2 x 6 pattern; holes contain two sets of stepped concentric circles. This device was a simplified version of patented cachet making apparatuses such as the Checheteur Limousin or Chapireau's Cacheteur, and was intended to be used with a smal...
Created:
1890 - 1930?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar. Cup-shaped wooden mortar with pedestal base; exterior stained dark cherry color. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are used for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, ...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar. Elongated, cup-shaped wooden mortar with pedestal base. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are used for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and s...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar. Elongated, cup-shaped wooden mortar with circular base. Mortar was purchased from Frederick J. Wulling from Holtzermann's Chicago Store Store on Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis, MN. Holtzermann's was a department store that specialized in European imports and where many clerks spoke German and Norwegian as well as English, in operation from ...
Created:
1883 - 1931?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar. Small, cup-shaped wooden mortar with pedestal base. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are used for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Cylindrical wooden mortar decorated with raised bands near lip and base; pedestal base; small wooden pestle with wider ends and more slender portion in the middle. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are used for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceuti...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Large cylindrical wooden mortar with flange at base and one-third of the way up body; cylindrical wooden pestle is more slender near handle and widens on end used for grinding. Mortar and pestle were purchased from Frederick J. Wulling from Holtzermann's Chicago Store Store on Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis, MN. Holtzermann's was...
Created:
1883 - 1931?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Large wooden cup-shaped mortar with pedestal base; large, cylindrical flanged wooden pestle with clubbed ends. The wood this mortar and pestle is made out of closely resembles Lignum Vitae, a hard wood from the Caribbean and South America that became a popular material for mortar and pestles due to its durability. Lignum Vita...
Created:
1701 - 1800?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Large cylindrical wooden mortar with flared rim and pedestal base; large bat-shaped wooden pestle with clubbed ends, significantly larger at grinding head than at handle. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are used for crushing, grinding, and blending phar...
Created:
1701 - 1800?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Cup-shaped wooden mortar with flared lip and base; pestle has wooden handle with a small, flanged end attached to a wider, flared end made of Wedgwood-style porcelain. Pestle includes manufacturer markings: "2." Frederick Wulling was gifted this mortar and pestle by Minneapolis art and antique dealer Thomas Chan (pronounced "K...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Cup-shaped wooden mortar with pedestal base; pestle has wooden handle with a small, flanged end and a wider, flared end made of Wedgwood-style "biscuit porcelain" for grinding. Pestle contains manufacturer markings: "7." Originally used in A. H. Paul's Drug Store in St. Peter, MN. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pe...
Created:
1857 - 1916?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Prosthetic leg. Wooden prosthetic leg for lower part of thigh, knee, and calf; wooden portions of prosthetic leg are hollow; joint mechanism is located at the sides of knee and calf and behind the knee and into hollow portions of calf and thigh; mechanism is made of plastic and steel. Includes manufacturer markings:"Otto Bock -- ORTHOPEDIC INDUS...
Contributor:
Ottobock (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Created:
1958 - 1990?
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
