Pitcairn Compo-Drier
date: label: Date made
content: USA
name: label: maker
content: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
notes: label: Description
content: 1/8 gal. tin-plate container of Pitcairn’s Compo-Drier. The Pitcairn Varnish Co. was doing business in Milwaukee, Wisc., and Newark, N.J. in 1915. By the early 1920s it was affiliated with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Paints Varnishes and Brushes Their History Manufacture and Uses (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., 1923), p. 66.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of W. R. Grace Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0516.01
label: catalog number
content: 1981.516.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0516
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pitcairn Compo-Drier
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.8 cm x 7.5 cm; 5 13/16 in x 2 15/16 in