Chemistry Set
date: label: Date made
content: 1936
name: label: maker
content: Porter Chemical Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Porter Chemical Co. was established by brothers John and Harold Porter in Hagerstown, Md., in 1914, and was soon producing and selling chemistry sets. Advertisements described these sets as “the Boy’s own chemical laboratory” and promised that “Porter Products Put Science at Your Service.” This set is dated 1936.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. P. Russell, “The American Boy Wants a Practical Toy,” <i>Printer’s Ink</i> 110 (Feb. 1920): 45-48.
label: Description
content: John Tyler, <i>The Chemcraft Story: The Legacy of Herald Porter</i> (Haworth, N.J., 2003).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0221.02
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0221.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0221
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chemistry set
label: Object Name
content: Dhemistry Set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.3 cm x 22.2 cm x 5.1 cm; 13 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; book, each: 7 15/16 in x 4 7/8 in x 1/2 in; 20.16125 cm x 12.3825 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; set in case: 1 15/16 in x 13 1/4 in x 8 7/8 in; 4.92125 cm x 33.655 cm x 22.5425 cm