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Container for 'Mycota' powder

Container for 'Mycota' powder

circa 1997
Vinolia 'Baby Powder' bear

Vinolia 'Baby Powder' bear

1950
Disposable Absorption Containment Trunk (DACT)

Disposable Absorption Containment Trunk (DACT)

1980
Cylindrical metal container, European

Cylindrical metal container, European

1801-1900
Co-operative Wholesale Society Tobacco Container

Co-operative Wholesale Society Tobacco Container

1930-1939
Jerry can with Zero Petroleum branding

Jerry can with Zero Petroleum branding

2021
container for boxes of M-M-R II (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine

container for boxes of M-M-R II (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine

2000
Sixty capsules of melatonin, a natural hormone, United States, 1999

Sixty capsules of melatonin, a natural hormone, United States, 1999

1999
N-halamine modified polystyrene

N-halamine modified polystyrene

Dome shaped serving dish for hot food, made of phenol formaldehyde

Dome shaped serving dish for hot food, made of phenol formaldehyde

1920-1940
Container for 'Soltan Cool Waves Aftersun'

Container for 'Soltan Cool Waves Aftersun'

circa 1997
Brown circular container made of phenol formaldehyde

Brown circular container made of phenol formaldehyde

1920-1940
Cylindrical leather container by Farrow & Jackson London

Cylindrical leather container by Farrow & Jackson London

1857-1900
Container for an Exfoliating Body Scrub

Container for an Exfoliating Body Scrub

circa 1997
Kodak Film Roll Cases

Kodak Film Roll Cases

1930-1950
'Soap' container

'Soap' container

2020
Blood transfusion bottle container for 3 bottles

Blood transfusion bottle container for 3 bottles

Glass specimen dish and glass bottle, both containing sumach

Glass specimen dish and glass bottle, both containing sumach

1920-1940
Film Rolls Container

Film Rolls Container

1940-1960
"Salad-box" receptacle for organ culture, used at the Common Cold Research Unit

"Salad-box" receptacle for organ culture

Empty container for Allinson’s yeast, chosen by the anonymised participant ‘Ray’ to represent their experiences of lockdown, produced as part of a project investigating student relationships and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of Sheffield, UK, 2020-2021.

container - receptacle

2020-2021
Narrow rectangular black tin, used for compound of atropine and sulphuric acid, now half full of wood shavings

Narrow rectangular black tin, used for compound of atropine and sulphuric acid, now half full of wood shavings

1870-1918
Soap container made of phenol formaldehyde, with BEX and Made in England, on the inside of the lid, by Bex Mouldings Limited, England, 1920-1940

Soap container made of phenol formaldehyde

1920-1940
Tin, to contain 50 ‘Players Navy Cut’ Cigarettes, used for storing Plant-Down tinder, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Tin for storing plant down tinder

1910-1950
Narrow rectangular yellow tin, empty

Narrow rectangular yellow tin, empty

1870-1918
Steel safety razor with box and integral small container, made of phenol formaldehyde, by Gillette, England, 1920-1940. With three razor blades in original packets inside the integral small container (see note).

Steel safety razor with box made of phenol formaldehyde

1920-1940
Plastic box, by Hoechst AG, used to store three samples of serotonine prepared by Maurice Rapport

Plastic box for serotonine samples

1948
Collection of items from an Oxfam project to provide containers for prescribed drugs to clinics in Bangladesh; including plastic moulding containers made from recycled plastic, hand pressed envelopes marked with rubber stamp for time of dose, etc, 1980s.

Collection of items from a project to provide containers for prescribed drugs to clinics in Bangladesh

1980-1989
Container for 96 disposable 10ul pipette filter tips, for moving and measuring samples for a range of procedures, for use at the Quadram Institute, Norwich, part of the COG-UK networ, set up during the COVID-19 pandemic and made by Sterilab Services, 2020-21.

container - receptacle

2020-2021
Glass container, 1 of 18, supplied by Wood Bros. Ltd., Barnsley, England, 1968

Glass container

1968
Container for 50ml Nuclease-Free water or ‘PCR-grade water’, used in many places in the SARS-CoV-2 sequencing pipeline to prepare reagent mixes for each reaction and as a negative-control, produced by Life Technologies Corps, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific, and used at the Quadram Institute, Norwich, part of the COG-UK network set up during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-21.

container - receptacle

2020-2021
Cell bank container for storage using liquid nitrogen, by Thor, England, 1970-1990

Cell Bank Container for Storage Using Liquid Nitrogen

1970-1990
Model, of ‘Top-hat’ shaped cast steel cylinder; and tin container, for cigarettes, containing nineteen steel flat washers, fourteen slotted brass dome-head machine screws and an ‘L’ shaped flat piece of wood, that has a 4 mm diameter hole in one corner, from model of an 'Independent' type (Cabinet) Rotative steam beam engine, with a self-supporting iron frame, originally designed by Matthew Murray, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1800. The steam engine and iron frame design were then evolved and made by Boulton, Watt & Co., Soho Foundry, Soho, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, 1812-1814. James Watt owned the 'Independent' type (Cabinet) Rotative steam beam engine model.

Tin box containing: cylinder, and 19 washers, 14 machine screws, 'L'-shaped piece of wood, from Rotative steam beam engine model