Barbicide
name: label: maker
content: King Research Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Barbicide is a disinfectant solution that barbers and cosmetologists use to disinfect such grooming tools as combs and hair-cutting shears. It was invented in 1947 by Maurice King, manufactured by King Research, and marketed heavily around the United States.
label: Description
content: Ref: “A True Blue Tribute. The Smithsonian Celebrates Barbicide, A Barbershop Germ Killer Born in Brooklyn,” New York Times (Jan. 22, 1997), pp. 19, 24.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: King Research Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0195.01
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0195.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0195
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Disinfectant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: isopropyl alcohol (overall material)