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Artifact Name	Electric Porcelain Sterilizer
Type of Object	Sterilizer
Manufacturer	American Sundries Co.
Place of Manufacture	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Date of Manufacture	1920-1930
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	8.5 cm. x 15 cm. x 9 cm.
Physical Details	Electric sterilizer with porcelain base and stainless steel lid and tray. Hinged lid contains two vent openings, and has two arms attached on which hangs a tray with numerous small holes in the bottom. The tray is raised to the top of the porcelain enclosure when the lid is opened, and drops to the bottom when it is closed. Vents on top are closed by sliding vent covers.
Medical Subject	Sterilization -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1983.116.10
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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