Coal Tar
name: label: distributor
content: Cassella Color Company
label: maker
content: Leopold Cassella & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The Cassella Color Company, of New York—distributors of artificial dyes made by the Leopold Cassella Co. in Frankfurt, Germany—sent this sample of coal tar to the Smithsonian in 1914, for display in the U.S. National Museum. Shortly thereafter, German dye factories turned to war production, German imports to the U.S. dwindled, the U.S. government seized many German patents and handed them to American holding companies, and the Cassella Color Company became the Century Colors Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Division of Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.57025.027
label: accession number
content: 57025
label: catalog number
content: 57025.027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle, Coal Tar
label: Object Name
content: coal tar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: bottle: 114 mm x 58 mm; 4 1/2 in x 2 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: ?: 81 mm x 46 mm; 3 3/16 in x 1 13/16 in