S.S. White dental catalogs collection, 1862 - 1967

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Samuel Stockton White Dental Manufacturing Company, creator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business.

Dental instruments and apparatus.

Dentistry.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

9 boxes (9 linear feet)

Arrangement:

Organized into 18 series.

Place of Publication:

1862 - 1967

Biography/History:

One of the most important dental equipment manufacturers in the United States, the S.S. White company was founded in 1844 by Philadelphia dentist Samuel Stockton White (1822-1875). The company produced a wide range of tools, instruments, and furniture for dentists in addition to artificial teeth, crowns, and dentures. S.S. White's business was international in scope with advertising materials and catalogs published in Spanish, German, and French in addition to English.

Summary:

This collection consists of catalogs, price lists, advertising materials, and other similar materials drawn from two sources. The first is a set of 46 volumes of S.S. White catalogs which were collected by the University of Pennsylvania libraries (or possibly by the company itself) and bound by rough chronology and subject; the second is a collection of S.S. White materials brought together by the Evans Dental Museum and library which was transferred to the Kislak Center in 2015. These two collections have been housed distinctly but are intellectually combined in this finding aid. Note that the S.S. White Company donated a substantial portion of their in-house library to the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and some of the materials here likely come from that source. The collection is arranged here by catalog subject - beginning with a series of S.S. White's general catalogs dating from 1862-1967 and continuing with the series of "Specialties of the Mouth" catalogs and general price lists, these are followed by Anesthesia, Crowns/Bridges/Teeth, Dental Engines & Lathes, Dental Furniture, Electrical Apparatus & tools, Fillings, Forceps, Furnaces, Impressions, Operative Instruments & Tools, Orthodontics, Price Lists, Radiology, Dental Dams, Specialties of the Mouth, Vulcanization, and miscellaneous. Catalogs are arranged chronologically where possible within each series. Some catalogs are present in duplicate or triplicate because they are heavily annotated or otherwise altered.

OCLC:

1537978765