Container with Lid
Sanitation Kit
YMCA Civil Defense Sanitation Kit IV
January 1963 (Date manufactured/created)
Paper, Metal
Paper, Metal
21 3/4" H
X
16" W
X
21 3/4" D
Cylindrical paper barrel and lid fits over top, opens at top. Barrel features the Office of Civil Defense logo located on both sides of label. Barrel contains large printed label in black on front reading, "__Sanitary Fill Line / SURVIVAL SUPPLIES / FURNISHED BY OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE / DEPARTMENT /OF DEFENSE. / SK IV SANITATION KIT / Supplies 50 persons / CONTENTS / TOILET TISSUE__10 / CAN OPENER__1 / COMMODE LINER, POLYTHENE_1 / SANITARY NAPKIN__60 / HAND CLEANER__1 /GLOVES, POLYTHENE__1 / SYPHON SPOUT__1 / TIE WIRE__1 / COMMODE SEAT__1 / CUPS AND LIDS__80 / INSTRUCTION SHEET__1 /COMMODE CHEMICAL__1 / INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE INSIDE DRUM / THE GRIEF BROS COOPERAGE CORP / RAHWAY NJ / (CONTACT NO.)10039 / MONTH: JAN YEAR: 1963". To the left of the contents label is a shipping label on white paper with red printed ink. Shipping label reads, "YMCA / 50 Howe Street / New Haven, [illegible] / 06510 / OF 370". Also included on the shipping label is the return address, although completely illegible in it's current state.
Gift of Marc A. Cehovsky
2018.9.1.1 AB