Medic Alert Bracelet--Diabetes
date: label: date made
content: ca 1999
name: label: wearer
content: Marie, Kaitlin
notes: label: Description
content: Medic Alert bracelet belonging to Kaitlin Marie who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 2.
label: Description
content: After his daughter Linda suffered a near-fatal allergic reaction, Marion Collins thought about a medical alert system. Dr. Collins and his wife Chrissie created the first MedicAlert ID bracelet soon thereafter. The MedicAlert Foundation is incorporated as a non-profit foundation in Turlock, CA., in 1956.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: See more items in
content: Health & Medicine
label: See more items in
content: Diabetes
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kaitlin Marie and Janet Katherine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0192.11
label: accession number
content: 2017.0192
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0192.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bracelet, medical alert
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (metal disc): 2 cm x 3.5 cm x .2 cm; 25/32 in x 1 3/8 in x 3/32 in