Culture Media Set - for Growing Bacterial Cultures - Parke, Davis & Co.
date: label: date made
content: 1898
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The pharmaceutical firm, Parke, Davis & Company of Detroit, Michigan, began selling culture media for bacteriological work beginning about 1897. This box of fifty glass culture media tubes was intended for use by universities, medical colleges, boards of health, and hospitals.The set includes samples of eight different culture media: Nutrient Gelatin, Glucose Gelatin, Litmus Gelatin, Nutrient Agar, Glycerin Agar, Glucose Agar, Blood Serum according to Dr. Koch, Blood Serum - Loeffler's mixture for diptheria, and several empty tubes. The box also includes tubes containing a sterilzed cotton swab used for making throat cultures to diagnose diphtheria. All of the tubes were sterilized, plugged with cotton and rubber-capped. A box of fifty tubes cost $2.50 in 1897. This specimen was given to the Smithsonian in 1898 by the company. (See objects MG.142336.02 through MG.142336.12 for examples of the individual tubes.)
label: Description
content: reference: Parke, Davis & Co. Price List, 1897, pp.108, 180.
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
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Diagnostics
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content: Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Parke, Davis & Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.142336.01
label: catalog number
content: 142336.01
label: accession number
content: 33542
objectType: label: Object Name
content: culture media set, bacterial
label: Object Name
content: biological
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (test tubes material)
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content: wood (box material)
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content: cotton wool (stoppers material)
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content: rubber (test tube seals material)
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content: culture media (contents material)
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content: paper (labels material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 11 3/8 in; 10.795 cm x 15.875 cm x 28.8925 cm
label: Measurements
content: part: glass tube: 9 cm x 2 cm; 3 17/32 in x 25/32 in