Orcein
notes: label: Description
content: Brown glass bottle with a black screw cap, and a paper label that reads in part “Orcein / gms / (Synthetic) Certified for use in: Animal Histology / Pharmaceutical Laboratories / NATIONAL ANILINE DIVISION / ALLIED CHEMICAL & DYE CORPORATION. . .” Orcein is a red dye originally extracted from several species of lichen. This sample was collected by Richard E. Heller (1908-1998), a surgeon affiliated with the Northwestern University Medical School.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth M. Heller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0325.025
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.025
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aniline Dye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.6 cm x 3.3 cm; 2 5/8 in x 1 5/16 in