Wrapping Machine
notes: label: Description
content: Isidor Z. Garfield (1863-1951) was a Russian chemist who arrived in the United States in 1888 and established a factory, in Edison, N.J., to manufacture Seidlitz powder. He also designed several machines for that factory. This one was used to put wrap cardboard containers of Garfield Seidlitz powders with cellophane. It was made by Krestin Anderson, in 1912.
label: Description
content: Seidlitz powder is the generic name of a laxative that has been widely known since the mid-19th century. The name comes from Sedlec, a village near Most, in the Czech Republic (previously Bohemia).
label: Description
content: Ref: “Isidor Z. Garfield, Manufacturer, 88,” New York Times (Nov. 10, 1951), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: George & Julius Garfield
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1144.007
label: accession number
content: 1979.1144
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1144.007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machine, cellophane wrapper