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A box or chest used to carry surgical implements and other medical materials.
Surgical Box
A box or chest used to carry surgical implements and other medical materials.
A box or chest used to carry surgical implements and other medical materials.
Surgical Box, Unknown Maker, c. 1860, pine, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Surgical Box

Datec. 1860
Mediumpine
Dimensions17 3/4 × 33 × 19 inches (45.1 × 83.8 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Margaret Gray Thomas.
Object numberOT1951.224
On View
Not on view
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextDr. James Gray Thomas, father of Margaret Gray Thomas whose generous bequest left the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters to Telfair Museums, served as a Confederate surgeon in the Civil War. He was commissioned to Savannah toward the end of the war, where he met and married Margaret Wallace Owens in 1865. This surgical box held the tools of his trade.
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