CHAPTER 173
Collect a Piece of Johnson & Johnson History: BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages Tins!
By
Margaret
Gurowitz
Apr 30, 2013
Earle Dickson: he invented a product to help his wife, and it became a global icon. Photo from our archives.
It’s as iconic and familiar as a Coca-Cola bottle, Levi’s jeans or, well, JOHNSON’S® Baby Powder. From the Jazz Age to the 1990s, it was in virtually every American household and in many households around the world. After people finished the product, they kept the package and repurposed it for many other uses….and people still keep and collect them today. What is it? A BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages tin!
As readers of this blog know, BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages were invented in 1920 by a young employee, cotton buyer Earle Dickson. He combined two early Johnson & Johnson prod
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