Pitcher
date: label: Date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: Kurz Kash Company
notes: label: Description
content: Red plastic pitcher made of thiourea, marked “Beetl / Duraware”, and apparently dating from 1928. An American chemical engineer named Christian Adolph Kurz, Jr. (1884-1947) saw some tableware made of thiourea on display in London in 1925 and arranged for his firm, the Kurz-Kasch Co., of Dayton, Ohio, to import it into the United States. As sales soared, the American Cyanamid Co. began manufacturing thiourea in the United States.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0538.11
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0538.11
label: accession number
content: 1983.0538
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 70 mm x 102 mm x 54 mm; 2 3/4 in x 4 in x 2 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 4 in x 8 in; 6.985 cm x 10.16 cm x 20.32 cm