Emblaming Kit
notes: label: Description
content: Carl B. Dolge, a German-born inventor and businessman, and Max Hunke, a German-born pharmacist, established the Brooklyn Embalming Fluid Co. in 1886. The firm moved to Westford, Ct., in 1890. The partnership dissolved in 1893, and the firm was renamed The Embalmers Supply Co. Mr. Dolge also established a factory for embalming instruments and the United States College of Embalming, and introduced the use of a formaldehyde-based embalming fluid. Inscriptions on this embalming kit read Embalmers Supply Co. and “WESTFORD, CONN.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83540Z30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bag, Doctor's
label: Object Name
content: bag, doctor's
label: Object Name
content: embalming kit
label: Other Terms
content: Bag, Doctor's; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 46.99 cm x 24.13 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall:;