Potato Starch
name: label: maker
content: Frederick Stearns & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: One of thirty-two (32) specimens of drug constituents donated by Frederick Stearns & Company in 1929 for the pharmacy exhibits. The museum provided the company with uniform 4-ounce bottles (known as “French Squares”) for the display. These specimens replaced material from a 1918 exhibit featuring plant-derived constituents used in pharmaceutical preparations (see accession 62370). Material from the earlier donation was returned to the company. Objects in the pharmacy exhibits were often replaced with “fresh” preparations as specimens became depleted, discolored, or out-of-date.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frederick Stearns & Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02594
label: catalog number
content: M-02594
label: accession number
content: 105154
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Potato Starch
label: Other Terms
content: Potato Starch; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid