Object Details
- Pierson, Weir
- Description (Brief)
- Yellow cardboard sign with black print. "WHOOPING / COUGH / Minimum quarantine period is six weeks. All members of the household, except those who / have previously had the disease, included. No person 14 years of age or under will be / permitted to attend school, church, or any other public gathering until 14 days after / exposure.--Chapter 205, Statutes 1917. / McPherson County Health Department"
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- In Memory of Dr. and Mrs. Weir Pierson from their children
- ca 1950
- ID Number
- 2013.3021.08
- nonaccession number
- 2013.3021
- catalog number
- 2013.3021.08
- Object Name
- quarantine sign, pertussis
- Physical Description
- cardboard (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 in x 13 7/8 in; 27.94 cm x 35.2425 cm
- overall: 27.9 cm x 35.4 cm; 10 31/32 in x 13 15/16 in
- place made
- United States: Kansas, McPherson
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Whooping Cough
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1446261
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-e6e8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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