| Unidentified photographer Extracting teeth. [Unidentified series 56] 1870 (ca) Stereoview Library Company of Philadelphia Accession number: P.2009.13.3 LL/118184 Comic genre scene showing a man being restrained in a dentist's chair by a boy who holds a scarf around the man's neck. The dentist, attired in a silk robe and pileus, pulls out the patient's teeth with an abnormally large instrument. A sign reading, "S.B. Smith, dentist," hangs on the wall.
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