Metal container with a “BULLARD / CYLINDRICAL / FIRST AID / KIT” inscription. An inscription on the cloth container inside reads “MANUFACTURED BY / E. D. BULLARD COMPANY / 275 EIGHTH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO.” Yet another reads “DESIGNED BY / STANDARD OIL COMPANY / OF CALIFORNIA/ PATENT NO 1,575,206.” The referenced patent was issued to Louis P. Howe, a surgeon in San Francisco.
Edward Dickinson Bullard established the E.D. Bullard Co. in San Francisco, in 1898. Its original purpose was selling carbide lamps and mining equipment.
Ref: Louis P. Howe, “First Aid Kit Container,” U.S. Patent 1,575,206 (May 2, 1926), assigned to Standard Oil Company, of California.
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