Anti-Tuberculosis Brick from Manhattan, Kansas - Imprinted "Don't Spit on Sidewalk"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1908
name: label: Associated Name
content: Crumbine, Samuel Jay
label: Associated Name
content: Crumbine, Samuel Jay
notes: label: Description
content: Following the 1908 International Congress on Tuberculosis, Samuel J. Crumbine (1862-1954), a Kansas physician and public health reformer, devised the slogan "Don't Spit on Sidewalk" to help control the spread of communicable diseases. This “DON’T SPIT / ON / SIDEWALK” brick came from Manhattan, Kansas.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kansas, Manhattan
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Kansas
topic: label: Subject
content: Public Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Interfraternity Council, Kansas State University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10405
label: accession number
content: 246434
label: catalog number
content: M-10405
objectType: label: Object Name
content: brick, commemorative, tuberculosis prevention
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.5 cm x 22 cm x 10.5 cm; 2 3/16 in x 8 11/16 in x 4 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 8 5/8 in x 4 in; 5.3975 cm x 21.9075 cm x 10.16 cm