Category 3: Personal Objects➔Personal Gear➔Personal Assistive Objects➔Pump, Breast
Artifact
Accession Number:
76-16-7
Date
1898Description
A glass and rubber breast pump. The most of it is a glass horn like shape with a bubble on the side. The rest is a circular rubber pump. From around 1898 and is same design as the "Russian medical nursing breast milk vacuum pump". How it would work is the mother would place the glass against her breast and squeeze the pump to create suction. The suction would force the milk out into the bubble, glass and rubber pump. The rubber on our specific pump has hardened into a stone like state and the glass is very delicate.Materials
glass, rubberMeasurements
3 in. W x 5 1/4 in. H Category
Pump, Breast
