Balance
notes: label: Description
content: Box scale in a dark wood case with glass top, and scale reading in Grains and Grams. It came from Garfield & Co., a New Jersey firm that produced and packaged a popular headache remedy known as Seidlitz powder. Isidor Z. Garfield (1863-1951), the founder of the firm was a chemist with a degree from the University of Moscow who arrived in the United States in 1888.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George and Julius Garfield
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1144.018
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1144.018
label: accession number
content: 1979.1144
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance, Box Prescription
label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 13 1/2 in x 6 5/8 in; 20.955 cm x 34.29 cm x 16.8275 cm