Soldier's field medical kit

Titles: Soldier's field medical kit (Supplied title)

Description: Leather field medicine kit containing four glass vials with cork stoppers. Two of the vials are marked "Quinine" and "Camphor"; a third has a printed label reading "DOVERS POWDERS / M. W. SERL. / DRUGGIST / Lebanon, Missouri"; the fourth is blank. The kit belonged to J.W. Hayes, who carried it during the Civil War and bequeathed it to the Daughters of the American Revolution upon his death at the Minnesota Soldiers' Home.

Dates

• Not earlier than 1840 - Not later than 1865 (Creation)
• Not earlier than 1861 - Not later than 1865 (Civil War) (Use)

Creation

• owned/used by: Hayes, J. W.
• about: Serl, M. W.

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 2001.A-E

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 5 items

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 1 inches height (2001.A, case)
• 5 1/4 inches width (2001.A, case)
• 7 inches length (2001.A, case)
• 5 1/4 inches length (2001.B, quinine vial)
• 1/4 inches diameter (2001.B, quinine vial)
• 5 1/2 inches length (2001.C-E, vials, each)
• 1/2 inches diameter (2001.C-E, vials, each)

Subjects

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