Object Details
- Description
- Folded piece of absorbent cellulose paper. Note pinned to paper reads: "An elastic highly absorbent paper, adapted for enveloping the sphagnum before it is enveloped in gauze."
- One of a series of specimens showing the use of sphagnum moss for surgical dressings as developed during World War I. This material was contributed to the museum in 1920 by Dr. Arno Viehoever, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Sphagnum Moss Products Company
- date made
- ca 1920
- Credit Line
- Gift of U.S. Department of Agriculture, through Dr. Arno Viehoever
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/4 in x 5 5/8 in x 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 14.2875 cm x .635 cm
- Object Name
- sanitary napkin, paper
- feminine hygiene product
- surgical dressing
