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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

This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

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.

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mar00182.jpg

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