Cartoning Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1912
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 nine containers of Garfield Seidlitz powders in a cardboard box. 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: 1979.1144.003
label: accession number
content: 1979.1144
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1144.003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machine, cartoning, part of