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Type of Object
Bedpan
Date of Manufacture
1900-1940
Physical Details
Enameled steel bedpan with outer lip and spout handle. Curved basin with roughly round opening. Roughly skull-shaped body. Pan covered in decorative blue-grey paint splatter pattern. Striated. Fused steel, two-piece body with two-part spout.
Dimensions
13 cm. x 32 cm. x 48 cm.
Topical Subject
Bedpans -- History
Medical Subject
Toilet Facilities
Accession Number
2009.5.4
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
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Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Blue-Grey Steelware Bedpan, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00182.jpg