Chemicals for Sizing and Dressing Cotton
name: label: patented by
content: Jenkens, F. P.
label: maker
content: Jenkins, F.P.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Frederick P. Jenkins, “Sizing and Dressing Cotton,” U.S. Patent 194,245 (Aug. 14, 1877). Jenkins (1835-1883), a cotton broker in Boston, overdosed on opium after having been found to have misappropriated large sums of money.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Suicide of a Broker,” Daily Kennebec Journal (Sept. 24, 1883), p. 2.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place patented
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0016.1
label: catalog number
content: 1980.16.1
label: accession number
content: 1980.0016
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0016.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chemicals for Sizing and Dressing Cotton
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: bottle 4: 86 mm x 43 mm; 3 3/8 in x 1 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: bottle 1: 68 mm x 38 mm; 2 11/16 in x 1 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: bottle 2: 86 mm x 43 mm; 3 3/8 in x 1 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: bottle 3: 86 mm x 43 mm; 3 3/8 in x 1 11/16 in