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Lino-topped desk from the volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit, Europe, 1946-1990

Public Health & Hygiene

1946-1990

milk jug

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Lamp

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Glass cruet set

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Gravy boat

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`Wear-ever' tray

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sugar bowl

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Experimental device for freezing cell cultures

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Gideons Bible

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Metal soap dish

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Gown and mask

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Toaster

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Chamber pot

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Electric iron

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Metal electric kettle

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Elford filter assembly

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Grey-painted metal waste bin, 1972, from bedroom of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Waste bin

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Hardboard wooden-edged jigsaw puzzle board, from lounge of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Hardboard wooden-edged jigsaw puzzle board

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Set of curtains and curtain rail, from bedroom of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Curtains and curtain rail

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Stainless steel bucket used for washing glassware in the laboratories of the Common Cold Research Unit

Bucket

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Walls, ceiling and door of a volunteer's flat, c. 1942, part of the Common Cold Research Unit

Walls, ceiling and door of a volunteer's flat

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Wooden rack containing virus storage tubes for storing specimens from experiments and volunteers at -70 C, used at the Common Cold Research Unit

Wooden rack containing virus storage tubes

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Bedding for single bed comprising 2 blankets, 2 sheets, 2 pillows with slips and bedspread, 1950-1970, from volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Bedding

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Brown painted metal table with fold-out wings, part of original furnishing bought to Harvard Hospital by American Red Cross 1940-1942, from lounge of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Table

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Sterile manipulation cabinet with UV air sterilizer, developed at NIMR, Mill Hill, 1957-' 9, with bunsen burner, used at the Common Cold Research Unit

Sterile manipulation cabinet with UV air sterilizer

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1957-59
White enamelled metal table, used as part of medical procedure at the Common Cold Research Unit

White enamelled metal table

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White painted wooden box for holding vacuum flasks when delivered outside volunteers' flat as part of isolation procedure at the Common Cold Research Unit

White painted wooden box for holding vacuum flasks

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`Untrypsinising' filter to remove fibres from specimens of cells, made using the filter from a wartime American Red Cross blood transfusion set, for laboratory use, from the Common Cold Research Unit

Untrypsinising filter

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Two pairs of wellington boots, one pair by Dunlop, the other by Uniroyal, worn by volunteers to prevent cross-infection at the Common Cold Research Unit

Wellington boots

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Haemocytometer used in the examination of tissue cultures at the Common Cold Research Unit

Haemocytometer

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Microbiological bench with stool, part of the original laboratory fittings of the Harvard Hospital, later used by the Common Cold Research Unit, American, 1941

Microbiological bench with stool

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1941
Two novels and a dictionary, 1943-1981, from lounge of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Two novels and a dictionary

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Dartboard, with wallcase and two sets of darts, from lounge of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Dartboard, with wallcase and two sets of darts

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Aluminium kettle, by D.P. Ltd, 1957, from kitchen of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Aluminium kettle from the kitchen of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

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1957
3 large vacuum flasks used for delivering meals to volunteers as part of isolation procedure at the Common Cold Research Unit

3 large vacuum flasks used for delivering meals

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Single bed comprising headboard, footboard, frame and springbase, 1940-1970, from volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Single bed comprising headboard, footboard, frame

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Circular lino-topped coffee table with shelf, from lounge of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Coffee table

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1947-1975
Glass petri dish containing stainless-steel gauze for organ culture at the Common Cold Research Unit

Petri dish for organ culture

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Tissues, plastic bags, ties and petri dishes, used as part of medical procedure at the Common Cold Research Unit

Tissues, plastic bags, ties and petri dishes

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Blackboard, unsigned, British, 1945-1953. Used for entering details of volunteers' bookings for trials, from the Administrators office, Common Cold Research Unit, Harvard Hospital, Harnham Down, Wiltshire, England.

Blackboard for entering volunteers' bookings

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1945-1953
Mattress for single bed, 1940-1970, from volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Mattress for a single bed

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Plastic petri dish with scratched base, the preferred receptacle for organ culture at the Common Cold Research Unit, 1963-1970

Plastic petri dish, the preferred receptacle for organ culture

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`Zephyr' convector heater, by Belling & Co. Ltd., Enfield, from lounge of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

`Zephyr' convector heater

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Carpet with orange and brown circular pattern, from lounge of volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Carpet with orange and brown circular pattern

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Utility-type wardrobe, part of original furnishings brought to Harvard Hospital by the American Red Cross, by High Point Furniture Company, North Carolina 1940-1942, later used in volunteers flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Utility-type wardrobe

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Utility-type chest of drawers, part of original furnishings brought to Harvard Hospital by the American Red Cross, by High Point Furniture Company, North Carolina, 1940-1942, later used in volunteers flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Utility-type chest of drawers

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Bucket used as part of isolation procedure at the Common Cold Research Unit

Bucket

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Sintered-glass filter, one of two, for the removal of bacteria from solutions, used at the Common Cold Research Unit

Sintered-glass filter

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