Bullard Cylindrical First Aid Kit
Bullard Cylindrical First Aid Kit
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- Description
- 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.
- Ref: Louis P. Howe, “First Aid Kit Container,” U.S. Patent 1,575,206 (May 2, 1926), assigned to Standard Oil Company, of California.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- first aid kit
- First Aid Kit
- Other Terms
- First Aid Kit; Medicine Cases
- Date made
- c. 1926
- patent holder
- Standard Oil Company of California
- place made
- United States: California, San Francisco
- Associated Place
- United States: California
- Physical Description
- cloth (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 6 in; 11.43 cm x 26.67 cm x 15.24 cm
- ID Number
- 1998.0159.03
- accession number
- 1998.0159
- catalog number
- 1998.0159.03
- patent number
- 1575206
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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