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Extracting teeth. [graphic].
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Title
Extracting teeth. [graphic].
Publisher
United States
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1870
Date
[ca. 1870]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
Comic genre scene showing a man being restrained in a dentist's chair by a boy who holds a scarf around the man's neck. The dentist, attired in a silk robe and pileus, pulls out the patient's teeth with an abnormally large instrument. A sign reading, "S.B. Smith, dentist," hangs on the wall.
Is part of
Unidentified series 56
Notes
Title printed on mount below image.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
See complementary stereograph "Is That tooth Mine?" [stereo - unid. - Genre (P.2009.13.4)].
Gift of William Helfand.
Subject
Dentistry.
Dental offices.
Portraits and genre.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Genre photographs -- 1860-1870.
Humorous pictures -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2009.13.3]
Accession number
P.2009.13.3
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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