Zinc Merck
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Merck and Company
notes: label: Description
content: One of 116 specimens of medicinal chemicals donated by Merck and Company in 1930 for the pharmacy exhibits. These specimens replaced material from a 1918 exhibit of synthetic medicinal chemicals supplied by Merck (accession 62578), a 1920 exhibit on medicinal preparations derived from the mineral kingdom (accession 64562), and a 1921 exhibit of pharmaceuticals arranged by therapeutic effect. Material in the latter two exhibits had been donated by the Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Company, a Philadelphia firm acquired by Merck in 1927. Most of the older specimens were returned to Merck. Objects in the pharmacy exhibits were usually replaced with “fresh” specimens within 10-15 years as specimens became depleted, discolored, or out-of-date.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Merck & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02767
label: catalog number
content: M-02767
label: accession number
content: 109069
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical