Object Details
- Johnson and Johnson
- Description
- 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.
- Ref: Fuller & Fuller Co., Drugs, Chemicals, Oils (Chicago, 1906-1907), p. 376.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Miss E. P. Custis
- ca 1902 - 1911
- ID Number
- MG.M-06942.03
- catalog number
- M-06942.03
- accession number
- 214851
- catalog number
- 214851.50 DUP 1
- Object Name
- vaccination shield
- biological
- Physical Description
- celluloid (shield material)
- fabric (shield material)
- paper (packaging material)
- Measurements
- 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
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, New Brunswick
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1446598
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-e295-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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