Camphor, Monobromated
date: label: date made
content: 1873
name: label: maker
content: Power, Frederick B.
notes: label: Description
content: Footed glass vial with ground glass stopper and paper label. Vial is full of white crystals. Label on bottle reads: PRIVATE COLLECTION / Monobromated / Camphor / (1873) C10H15BrO / F. B. POWER.
label: Description
content: Object recorded as "First pure monobromated camphor made in the United States. Prepared by Dr. F. B. Power in 1873, while employed in Parrish's Pharmacy at 8th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia, PA."
label: Description
content: Frederick Belding Power (1853-1927) graduated from the College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia in 1874. In 1880 he earned his doctorate from the University of Strasburg in Germany after which he returned to Philadelphia to teach analytical chemistry at the College of Pharmacy. From 1883 to 1892 Dr. Power chaired the newly established pharmacy department at the University of Wisconsin. In 1896 Henry S. Wellcome selected Dr. Power to become the first director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory in London. From 1916 to1927 Dr. Power headed the Phytochemical Laboratory at the United States Department of Agriculture.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Frederick B. Power
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01412
label: catalog number
content: M-01412
label: accession number
content: 67560
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Camphor, Monobromated
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Camphor, Monobromated; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 4.445 cm