Objects Up Close: Lancets & Smallpox at Winterthur Museum

Discover how a lancet tucked away in a medicine chest at Winterthur reveals the complex…
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Location
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Date
Tue, October 15
Time
10:30 pm

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Date
Tuesday, October 15
Time
10:30 pm
Location

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
5105 Kennett Pike (Route 52),
Wilmington, DE 19807

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Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
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Discover how a lancet tucked away in a medicine chest at Winterthur reveals the complex networks of the 18th-century material world, and how lancets became essential objects in combating smallpox, with Becca Lo Presti, assistant curator at the Mattatuck Museum and graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture.

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