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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1917-1919
- ID Number
- MG.M-01614
- catalog number
- M-01614
- accession number
- 64133
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- maker
- War Department. Commission on Training Camp Activities
- ID Number
- 2015.3115.48
- catalog number
- 2015.3115.48
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3115
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- Description
- Orange cardboard box containing one yard of corrosive sublimate gauze for field use in World War I. Typed on the box in black ink is: "B&B Corrosive / Sublimate Gauze / Compressed / 1 Yard / Prepared by / Bauer & Black / Chicago, U.S.A / Contract May, 1917." Corrosive sublimate, also known as mercuric chloride (HgCl2), was used as an antiseptic during the war.
- date made
- ca. 1917
- maker
- Bauer & Black
- ID Number
- AF.303690D
- catalog number
- 303690D
- accession number
- 62728
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- maker
- War Department. Commission on Training Camp Activities
- ID Number
- 2015.3115.46
- catalog number
- 2015.3115.46
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3115
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- maker
- War Department. Commission on Training Camp Activities
- ID Number
- 2015.3115.45
- catalog number
- 2015.3115.45
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3115
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- Description
- In 1861, having recognized that there was “no portion of the care of an army more important than the furnishing of the supplies,” the Howe Scale Co. introduced an “exceedingly compact” Army Scale that could be closed up “to prevent injury in camp or in transporting.” The firm would later claim that its “Army or Commissary Scales” could “be closed in half a minute, so as to form a complete and that more than 4,000 of these scales “were used by the United States army during the late war.”
- The “Commissary Scale” for which Thaddeus Fairbanks obtained a U.S. patent in 1862 looked a lot like Howe’s Army Scale. It could be “reduced at will to a more compact form than that required when in use,” and locked for security. It could be used for “commissary and general army purposes,” and might “stand unwatched on wharves and other exposed places with little danger of the loss of any of its parts by theft.” E. and T. Fairbanks was soon manufacturing scales according to this design, and would continue doing so for many years. In 1897, the Fairbanks firm noted that their “Army and Navy Scales” had been found “very useful on board ship, where space is an object and compactness is desirable; also by contractors and army recruiting officers.” They also offered a similar “Recruiting Office Scale.”
- The inscriptions on this example read “FAIRBANKS” and “RECRUITING OFFICE SCALE.” The colored image of a terrestrial globe crossed with the words “FAIRBANKS SCALES” represents the trade mark for which E. and T. Fairbanks received a trade mark on September 5, 1893.
- Ref: “Howe’s Army Scale,” Scientific American (Oct. 12, 1861): 252.
- The Howe Scale Co., Illustrated Price List of the Improved Howe Scales (Rutland, Vt., 1880), p. 16.
- Thaddeus Fairbanks, “Improvement in Platform-Scales,” U.S. Patent 34,676 (March 18, 1862).
- Fairbanks & Co., Pricelist (July 1, 1897), p. 37.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- E. and T. Fairbanks and Company
- ID Number
- 1986.0687.01
- accession number
- 1986.0687
- catalog number
- 1986.0687.01
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1918
- maker
- Johnson & Johnson
- ID Number
- MG.M-09692
- catalog number
- M-09692
- accession number
- 206453
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- about 1915
- maker
- Carnes Artificial Limb Company
- ID Number
- 1997.0119.30
- accession number
- 1997.0119
- catalog number
- 1997.0119.30
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- Description
- William David Coolidge (1873-1975), an American physicist working for General Electric, introduced a new hot cathode x-ray tube in 1913, with articles sent to scientific publications, and demonstrations given to physicians and radiologists, many of whom saw the advantages for diagnostic purposes and cancer treatments. This early Coolidge tube was used at the University of Maryland.
- Ref: William David Coolidge, “A Powerful Roentgen Ray Tube with a Pure Electron Discharge,” Physical Review 2nd Ser. 2 (1914): 409-430.
- General Electric Company, Coolidge X-Ray Tube (Schenectady, N.Y., 1920).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- maker
- General Electric Company
- ID Number
- MG.M-08013
- catalog number
- M-08013
- accession number
- 223481
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- Description
- Army Nurse Corps jacket worn by Mrs. Newell S. Crouse in France during World War I. Dark blue jacket with four pockets at front. Advance Sector Services of Supply patch on left shoulder. Gold overseas service chevron on left sleeve, indicating 6 months of service.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca. 1917
- associated date
- 1917 - 1918
- ID Number
- AF.56157
- catalog number
- 56157
- accession number
- 198918
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- Description
- Blue booklet of diagnosis tags for use by U.S. Army medical personnel during World War I. Typed in black ink on the front of the booklet is: "DIAGNOSIS / TAG / U.S. ARMY / For Use among Sick and Wounded / on the Battle-Field. / Contract, June 1918 / Field Medical Supply Depot, U.S. Army / W.H. Brewton, Contractor / Washington, D.C." Sick or wounded soldiers would receive a diagnosis tag from medical personnel in the field before being transported to a hospital for treatment. The tag was attached to the soldier's uniform near the chest via a thin metal wire. Diagnosis tags aided hospital workers in determining treatment priorities.
- date made
- 1916-1918
- contract date
- 1918-06
- ID Number
- AF.303690E
- catalog number
- 303690E
- accession number
- 62728
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- Description
- U.S. Army Contract Surgeon women's uniform from World War I. The uniform consists of a coat, skirt, shirtwaist, necktie, campaign hat, gloves, boots, and insignia. The coat and skirt are made of olive drab wool. The hat is brown wool with a black and maroon hat band and black and gold hat cord. The shirt is olive drab cotton and the tie is maroon cotton. The gloves and boots are brown leather. Insignia include metal "U.S." insignia on shirt collar and bronze caduceus with a superimposed "CS" monogram on the coat lapels. World War I Victory ribbon on left breast. Three overseas service chevrons on lower left sleeve, depicting 6 months of service each. This uniform was worn by Dr. Loy McAfee, who was assigned to the Office of the Surgeon General by orders dated May 17, 1918. Donated by Dr. McAfee through The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
- During World War I the U.S. Army Medical Department employed contract surgeons in order to meet the demand for additional skilled medical personnel. Women who were contract surgeons served as anesthetists, lab technicians, dispensary physicians, and other capacities as needed.
- Source:
- Vivian Lea Young, “'Petticoats Are Part of this Uniform': American Women Volunteers of the First World War and Their Uniforms” (Master's thesis, George Washington University, 1987).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca. 1917
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- ID Number
- 1998.0165.63.01
- accession number
- 1998.0165
- catalog number
- 1998.0165.63.01
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- Description
- The case lid is stamped "ANTITOXIN SYRINGE.” The date of April 7, 1891 is stamped on the barrel.
- Ref: Anton Molinari, “Piston for Syringes,” U.S. Patent 449,883 (April 7, 1891).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1920
- patent date
- 1891-04-07
- ID Number
- MG.M-07851
- catalog number
- M-07851
- accession number
- 223292
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- Seabury & Johnson
- ID Number
- MG.312142.149
- catalog number
- 312142.149
- accession number
- 312142
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1917-1919
- ID Number
- MG.M-01615
- catalog number
- M-01615
- accession number
- 64133
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- Description
- Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) was an English bone setter, as were many of his relatives, and it was he who invented the Thomas Splint. His nephew, Colonel Robert Jones, promoted the use of the Thomas splint for the initial treatment of femoral fractures, thus greatly reducing the mortality related to this problem during World War I.
- This Thomas Splint was made by the DePuy Manufacturing Company, a firm established in Warsaw, Ind., in 1895, by Revra DePuy (1860-1921), a chemist and pharmaceutical salesman who promoted fiber splints that could be customized to fit patients.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- DePuy Manufacturing Company
- ID Number
- MG.M-07293.01
- catalog number
- M-07293.01
- accession number
- 217731
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- ID Number
- MG.M-09480.2
- catalog number
- M-09480.2
- accession number
- 228888
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- maker
- War Department. Commission on Training Camp Activities
- ID Number
- 2015.3115.47
- catalog number
- 2015.3115.47
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3115
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1918
- ID Number
- MG.M-02379
- accession number
- 100353
- catalog number
- M-02379
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- maker
- War Department. Commission on Training Camp Activities
- ID Number
- 2015.3115.52
- catalog number
- 2015.3115.52
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3115
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