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A Design Classic! 1.  What do BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages have in common with the @ symbol on your computer keyboard?  They’re both part of the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Here’s the link to the BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandage entry on the MOMA design collection website.  (By the way, because the product is in the collection of an art museum, Earle Dickson, the inventor of BAND-AID®, is listed as the artist on the site!) 2.  There was a fourth Johnson in the early days of Johnson & Johnson!  William Johnso

To help everyone cool down in the end-of-summer heat, Kilmer House brings you ten cool things from our archives.  Enjoy! 1. A 1927 price list that belonged to Earle Dickson, inventor of the BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandage.  The pages inside have handwritten notes by Dickson and, yes, his invention is listed, on page 11.  Here's the page that was most meaningful to Earle Dickson, with his handwriting. 2. A Zonweiss ad from 1887, the year after Johnson & Johnson was founded.  This one shows figures from Ancient Roman mythology discussing the merits of Zonwei

James Wood Johnson While the outgoing, forceful personality and ideas of Robert Wood Johnson the first were the cornerstones of the early success of Johnson & Johnson, the contributions of his brother James Wood Johnson also helped make the Company into the organization we know today.  James Wood Johnson was born on March 17, 1856 at Crystal Lake in Pennsylvania and was the eleventh and youngest child in the Johnson family.  From childhood, he was interested in mechanical things and, although he started out as a “traveler,” or salesman at Seabury & Johnson at age 22, he quic

There’s nothing worse than losing the instructions for something you’ve bought, especially if it’s something you need to use in an emergency. Some people keep all of their instruction manuals in an envelope or a folder, or in an electronic file, which is fine...as long as they remember where they put the file. But there is a better way, and it was discovered by the creator of a famous product that became part of our product lines over 100 years ago. Now where did I put the instruction booklet? The product was the Esmarch Triangular Bandage, a very well known wound treatment and First Aid prod

Designer BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages.  In a tin! With the success of Cynthia Rowley-designed BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages in special limited edition tins, it has become overwhelmingly clear that adults like wearing consumer wound care products with designs on them as much as kids do.  But there never has been a grown-up version of the colorful BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages until now…or has there? The Cynthia Rowley designer BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages unwrapped For a number of years, our consumer products operating company has made BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Band