Fairchild Culture of the Bacillus Bulgaricus
date: label: Date made
content: 1919
label: associated dates
content: 1990 01 10 / 1990 01 10
name: label: maker
content: Geo. L. Claflin Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard box containing 20 glass vials with cork stoppers. An inscription on the lid of the box reads “GEO. L. CLAFLIN CO. / REGISTERED PHARMAICSTS / 62 and 64 South Main St., PROVIDENCE, R.I.” That on the side reads in part “A simple method of preserving the Fairchild Culture of the Bacillus Bulgaricus.” Bacillus Bulgaricus is best known as a yogurt starter.
label: Description
content: Ref: Loudon M. Douglas, The Bacillus of Long Life (New York and London, 1911).
label: Description
content: Fairchild Bros. and Foster, “The Bacillus Bulgaricus,” Medical Record 83 (Feb. 22, 1913): ads p. 23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Northampton
topic: label: Subject
content: Public Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Pharmacy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0072.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0072.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0072
objectType: label: Object Name
content: culture, bacillus bulgaricus
label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical; Biologicals; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: ivory (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 9.1 cm x 7.4 cm; 3 1/8 in x 3 9/16 in x 2 15/16 in