Drug Kit
notes: label: Description
content: Drug kit designed to hold a dozen glass vials, with a “R. & G. A. WRIGHT, PHILADA. / PHYSICIANS / POCKET / COMPANION / PATENT APPLIED FOR” inscription on the lid. The Wrights had a large perfume factory in Philadelphia in the 1850s. By the 1860s they were also selling fancy goods and druggists’ sundries.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13062
label: catalog number
content: M-13062
label: accession number
content: 321641
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drug Kit
label: Object Name
content: medicine case, pocket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (vials(11) material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (box(1) material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (cover(1) material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sheets (paper)(9) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 8.89 cm x 10.795 cm