Dr. Wood's Vaccination Shield
date: label: date made
content: ca 1902 - 1911
name: label: maker
content: Johnson and Johnson
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the cardboard package reads in part “DR. WOOD’S / VACCINATION SHIELD” and “Manufactured by Johnson & Johnson / NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., U.S.A.” Johnson & Johnson was established in 1886, and offering vaccination of shields of this sort by 1902.
label: Description
content: Ref: Fuller & Fuller Co., Drugs, Chemicals, Oils (Chicago, 1906-1907), p. 376.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, New Brunswick
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss E. P. Custis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06942.03
label: catalog number
content: M-06942.03
label: accession number
content: 214851
label: catalog number
content: 214851.50 DUP 1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vaccination shield
label: Object Name
content: biological
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: celluloid (shield material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (shield material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 4 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 11.1125 cm x 6.985 cm