U.S. Army First Aid Packet
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1916
name: label: maker
content: Bauer & Black
notes: label: Description
content: U.S. Army first aid packet used during World War I. Brown painted brass box with "FIRST AID PACKET - U.S. ARMY / CONTRACT JAN-7-1916 / BAUER & BLACK / CHICAGO, U.S.A. / TO OPEN - PULL RING / PATENT APPLIED FOR" stamped on top in raised letters. Recess on bottom for pull ring. The pull has been used and packet is partially opened with pull tab still attached to outside of packet. Inside the packet are bandages sealed in waxed paper.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Military
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eric O. Skaggs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.72398M
label: catalog number
content: 72398M
label: accession number
content: 283601
objectType: label: Object Name
content: first aid packet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 4 in x 1 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 10.16 cm x 3.175 cm