Description: Brown leather-covered box with metal reinforcement bands, a hinged lid, and cloth-lined interior. Carrying handle on top missing. This drug kit contains medicines housed in paper envelopes on the upper, removeable layer (tray), and medicines housed in glass bottles with cork stoppers in the lower...
Description: Brown paper, leather, and cloth portfolio with gold trim on both covers. Front cover embossed in gold "DUDEN&Co" Paper label on front cover with black handwriting explaining how the portfolio was used.
Description: Brown slip of paper with handwriting in dark brown ink. Record of purchase for candles and turkeys. Document bears additional pencil signature of Stephen Tripp. Old museum tag attached. Paper from the Richmond Smallpox Hospital, signed by Wm. P.C. Ramsey
Description: Brown suitcase with handle, for transporting pharmaceuticals.
Description: Brown wood handle, with small metal hook ending for pulling arteries.
Description: Brown wooden splint, curved to fit the contours of a limb. Splint is rectangular at one end, then narrows to a rounded point. Large, brown textile strip connected to splint w/ 3 small nails. "Day/5" stenciled onto the surface.
Description: Brown, five-sided, rectangular, cardboard box for graduated decanter. Five-sided lid acompanies box. Box and lid are marked "2 Oz Graduate" in brown ink.
Description: Brown, hinged leather case edged in metal with a metal clasp. Two red interior dividers hold 14 corked, labeled vials and some paper fragments. Exterior is embossed on each side with a rectangle surrounding a sideways diamond. Leather scuffed, metal corroding.
Description: Brown, leather-covered traveling vial case. Has divisions inside for ten small vials. Lid has been torn off.
Date Created: 1862
Description: Brown, rectangular lid to 2004.001.001a. Lid has handwritten paper label which reads in brown ink "'Medicine chest'/Carried by-/Charles E. White/in Civil War 1861-62/Was at Siege of Port Hudson."
Date Created: 1862
Description: Brown, rectangular wooden box consisting of five pieces, a bottom and four sides with wooded peg construction. Upper interior edge of box has squared grooves to fit separate sliding lid (2004.001.001b). Was carried by Pvt. Charles E. White, 15th NH Inf. Contains two labels. One reads "Charles...
Description: Brown, rectangular, japanned tin bottle with cork stopper. Light brown paper label reads "U.S.A. Med. Dept/EXT. IPECAC./FLUID"
Description: Brown, rectangular, japanned tin bottle with cork stopper. Light brown paper label reads "U.S.A. Med Depart./PIL: CATHART./COMP./T. Morris Perot & Co/ DRUGGISTS,/PHILADELPHIA."
Description: Brown, rectangular, japanned tin bottle with cork stopper. Light brown paper label reads "part./PILULAE OPII./T. Morris Perot & Co/DRUGGISTS,/PHILADELPHIA."
Description: Brown, rectangular, japanned tin bottle with cork stopper. Label is handwritten. Light brown paper label reads "Pil. Quin./gr." Next to spout is the number "8".
Description: Brown, rectangular, japanned tin bottle with cork stopper. Light brown paper label reads "U.S.A. Med. Depart./CHLOROFORMUM/T. Morris Perot & Co./DRUGGISTS,/PHILA"
Description: Brown, rectangular, japanned tin bottle with cork stopper. Label is handwritten. Light brown paper label reads "Pil/Ipicac/------/------" Next to spout is the number "6".
Description: Brown, rectangular, japanned tin container. Spout on top center of container. Top of container is marked "1" in gold next to spout. Light brown paper label reads "U.S.A. Medical Department./SPIRITUS FRUMENTI./T. MORRIS PEROT & CO., Philadelphia."
Date Created: 1862
Description: Small round metal shot with patches of white corrosion on surface.
Date Created: 1862
Description: Seventy-two pieces of small round metal shot, white corrosion on surface.
Description: Buckle type tourniquet constructed of red and white cotton textile with brass buckle at one end along with white leather bulb.
Description: Buff colored leather square that has been folded in half to hold needles; there are two needles that have been rusted into the leather.
Description: Bulbous wooden handle, tapers as it reaches its connection point with the silver metal shaft. Shaft tapers until it forms a curved head. Head is shaped like the blade of a hockey stick. Somewhat scooped.
Description: Steel bullet forceps. Two opposing arms with scissor-like action. One arm is inset through a slot in the other arm, forming a fulcrum on which the arms move. Forceps head consists of two opposing, blunt scoops with serrated edges.
Description: Very long forceps with curved grasping pincers at the end. Steel construction. "Hernstein" stamped on the handle. Some minor corrosion.
Description: Bulls-eye circular canteen, with raised concentric circle design on the body. Hole punctured through one side. Single pour spout w/ flanged lip, cylindrical neck. 3 square brackets connected to the sides. Heavily rusted.
Description: Burgundy colored carrying case. Hinged top with a small handle and clasp. Inside, the metal box is colored gold. It is lined with burgondy velvet. Pad on the lid is detached from the box, and a card has handwritten "Dr. E.J. Marsh/U. S. Army" on it.
Date Created: 1900
Description: Burgundy leather rectangular case with gold decoration and embossing reads, "Exposition Universelle/1900." Case opens to a burgundy velvet circular space for the medallion and a white silk underside. Very fragile condition.
Date Created: 1865
Description: C.D.V. of Dr. Elias Marsh in his Union Military uniform. On the reverse side of the cardstock is a manufacturer's label, "Sarony & Co."/680 Broadway/New York." Handwritten on back is "E.J. Marsh 1835-1908/(abb. 1865)." C.D.V. is a small portrat mounted on a...
Date Created: 1864
Description: Colored print, "Camp Scenes - An Army Drug Store - The Hospital Steward" from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Nov. 12, 1864, drawn by Joseph Becker.
Description: Canvas and metal tourniquet. 2 red canvas straps with white borders connected via canvas straps and brass buckles to 2 blue flat metal sides. Metal sides have screw tighteners with 2 white cloth pressure points. Part of hospital knapsack produced by Joseph De La Cour, Camden, N.J.
Description: Canvas and metal tourniquet. Red canvas with 2 white strips on each side. Black metal buckle with 2 teeth. Large, rectangular blue metal sliding support plank, 2 brass screws slide up/down the back. Large white bulb on inside of metal piece. Part of hospital knapsack produced by Joseph De La Cour,...
Description: Canvas and metal tourniquet. Two red canvas straps with white borders connected via canvas straps and brass buckles to two flat blue metal sides. Metal sides have screw tighteners with close two white cloth pressure points. Item is widened, then tightened. Part of hospital knapsack produced by...
Date Created: 1863
Description: Canvas and wood cot with folding legs and folding wood and metal extension (headboard) on one end. Marked "US M 1863"
Description: Canvas travel bag with drawstring top. "S.W. Drew / Surgeon. / 9th Regt. Mass. V." stenciled in black paint on one side of bag.
Description: Capital saw with metal blade, reinforced metal spine, and wood handle with finger grip and checkered grip.
Description: Paper covered booklet with white, plain paper cover, marblized spine. Handwritten title, "Capt. E.J. Conner & Major L.C. Hunt." Part of a set of proceedings of the Union Army Review Board to determine the status of Civil War officers claiming disabilities.
Date Created: May 2, 1864
Description: Paper covered booklet, marblized spine. From the proceedings of the Union Army Review Board to determine the status of Civil War officers claiming disabilities.
Description: Cylindrical, clear glass bottle with cork. Label is on red paper with black printing and reads, "Carver's Little Liver Pills". This was a patent medicine taken for constipation.
Description: Carved wooden case. Brown velvet interior with a design. Gold decorative frame surrounding a rectangular, glass encased black and white photo of a man in a chair, wearing a hat and a bowtie. Photographic print taken as a positive print on a sensitized metal sheet, not tin. Introduced by Adolphe...