Bullard Cylindrical First Aid Kit
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1926
name: label: patent holder
content: Standard Oil Company of California
notes: label: Description
content: Metal container with a “BULLARD / CYLINDRICAL / FIRST AID / KIT” inscription. An inscription on the cloth container inside reads “MANUFACTURED BY / E. D. BULLARD COMPANY / 275 EIGHTH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO.” Yet another reads “DESIGNED BY / STANDARD OIL COMPANY / OF CALIFORNIA/ PATENT NO 1,575,206.” The referenced patent was issued to Louis P. Howe, a surgeon in San Francisco.
label: Description
content: Edward Dickinson Bullard established the E.D. Bullard Co. in San Francisco, in 1898. Its original purpose was selling carbide lamps and mining equipment.
label: Description
content: Ref: Louis P. Howe, “First Aid Kit Container,” U.S. Patent 1,575,206 (May 2, 1926), assigned to Standard Oil Company, of California.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
label: Associated Place
content: United States: California
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: 1998.0159.03
label: accession number
content: 1998.0159
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0159.03
label: patent number
content: 1575206
objectType: label: Object Name
content: first aid kit
label: Object Name
content: First Aid Kit
label: Other Terms
content: First Aid Kit; Medicine Cases
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 6 in; 11.43 cm x 26.67 cm x 15.24 cm