Object Details
- Description
- Sumner M. Morrison earned a master’s degree in Bacteriology and Physiology from Perdue University in 1942, and then landed a job with Upjohn, a pharmaceutical firm in Kalamazoo, Mi., that was gearing up to produce and package penicillin, especially for military purposes. This glass vial presumably contains penicillin from that period.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Charles Pfizer and Company
- Upjohn Company
- date made
- ca 1944
- Associated Date
- delete
- Credit Line
- Susan J. Morrison
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- penicillin [presumed] (drug ingredient)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.5 cm x 1.5 cm; 3 3/4 in x 19/32 in
- Object Name
- biological
- antibiotic, penicillin
