Object Details
maker
H. K. Mulford Company
Description
White cardboard box with black print containing six 1/2 mil. glass ampoules. Mulford Laboratory brand on bottom left corner of label that reads "For the Conservation of Life." Each glass ampule is packaged in a cardboard tube sealed with a white paper label with black printing. A paper insert is included (filed separately). The Pituitary Extract was in the midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
date made
after 1918
ID Number
2012.0128.27
accession number
2012.0128
catalog number
2012.0128.27
accession number
2012.0128
catalog number
2012.0128.27
Object Name
pharmaceutical
biological
midwife's kit
Physical Description
cardboard (container material)
paper (label material)
pituitary extract (drug active ingredients)
Measurements
overall: 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.6675 cm
overall: 9 cm x 6.75 cm x 1.75 cm; 3 17/32 in x 2 21/32 in x 11/16 in
part: product: 6 cm x 1.25 cm; 2 3/8 in x 1/2 in
place made
United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Medicine and Science: Medicine
Health & Medicine
Midwife Kit
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Medicine
Women's Health
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1422573