First Aid Kit
date: label: date made
content: late 1930s - 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Wellcome Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1922, the insurance carrier of American Telephone and Telegraph Company sought a solution for the many minor injuries that became infected. In response, Burroughs Wellcome designed a system that standardized the antiseptics, medications and dressings into small unit-dose packages and trademarked the term Pac-Kit.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0387.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0387
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0387.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kit, first aid
label: Object Name
content: first aid kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall materal)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 11/16 in x 8 1/4 in x 5 in; 6.7945 cm x 20.955 cm x 12.7 cm