Bismark Brown Y
name: label: manufacturer
content: Coleman & Bell Co., The
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads in part “10 g / Bismarck Brown Y / The Coleman & Bell Co., Norwood, O., U.S.A.” Carl Alexander von Martius (1838-1920) was a chemist and entrepreneur in Berlin who, in 1863, invented an azo dye which he named Bismarck brown Y, after the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. George de Laire (1836-1908), a chemist with the Imperial Mint in Paris, obtained a British patent for “Improvements in the Manufacture of Brown Coloring Matters” that same year.
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: 1999.0325.107
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.107
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aniline Dye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.5 cm x 3.5 cm; 2 9/16 in x 1 3/8 in