Bag, Medicine

Object/Artifact

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Grover Center: Museum & Historical Society

Medical Kit, open view

Medical Kit, open view

Name/Title

Bag, Medicine

Description

Medical kit. Folding container of multi-layered paperboard with faux-leather finish in burgundy color. Metal latch on front reads when opened: "Pat. April 4.65 July 29.75 R. Feb. 26.78. Kit opens to display two rows of glass vials with cork stoppers. One vila has a screw-on metal cap. Three vials are missing. Seventeen vials exist and all but one still hold the contents. Wallet-like pouch compartment contains bits of paper, some with written "recipes" for cures and some folded into medicine "packets."

Use

by Lafayette M. Talbert , Morristown, IN farmer/owned livery stable

Collection

Judith Black

Acquisition

Accession

2007.038

Source or Donor

Judith Black

Acquisition Method

Donation

Made/Created

Date made

1865 - 1878

Notes

Date: 03/19/2011 Made: Pat. April 4.65 July 29.75 R. Feb. 26.78

Dimensions

Depth

2 in

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Mar 19, 2011

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Talbert

Person or Organization

Lafayette M. Talbert

Create Date

March 19, 2011

Update Date

April 3, 2024