I Am Vaccinated with Mulford's Vaccine, Are You?
date: label: date made
content: ca 1902
name: label: maker
content: Whitehead & Hoag Company
label: maker
content: H. K. Mulford Company
notes: label: Description
content: Harry K. Mulford, a Philadelphia pharmacist, opened a laboratory to produce diptheria antitoxin in 1894. This celluloid button advertises his patented “aseptic shield” that protected the open sore caused by a small pox vaccination. The text on the front reads "I AM VACCINATED WITH MULFORD’S VACCINE, ARE YOU?" A paper on the back reads “MULFORD’S / VACCINE / ALWAYS / TAKES. / MULFORD’S / ASEPTIC SHIELD / PREVENTS SORE ARMS / W. & H. Co. Patent...'94, April 14... / …"
label: Description
content: Ref: Harry K. Mulford, “Vaccination Shield,” U.S. Patent 703,290 (June 24, 1902).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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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: Smallpox
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ramunas Kondratas
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0201.01
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0201.01
label: accession number
content: 2007.0201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, promotional
label: Object Name
content: advertising, vaccine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: celluloid (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 1 in x 7/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 2.54 cm x 2.2225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm; x in