Fallout Shelter Medicine Kit
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the cardboard box reads in part “SURVIVAL SUPPLIES / FURNISHED BY / OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE / DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE / MEDICAL KIT / A / 50 – 65 SHELTER OCCUPANTS / THIS UNIT CONTAINS NO NARCOTICS.” The Office of Civil Defense was an agency of the United States Department of Defense created in 1961 and concerned largely with the construction of bomb shelters. It was renamed the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency in 1972 and abolished in 1979.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1987.0521.02
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0521.02
label: accession number
content: 1987.0521
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medicine kit, fallout shelter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 12 5/8 in x 15 3/8 in; 27.94 cm x 32.0675 cm x 39.0525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 cm x 39.8 cm x 32 cm; 7 7/8 in x 15 21/32 in x 12 19/32 in