Vaseline
name: label: maker
content: Chesebrough Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard box with inscription that reads in part “Vaseline” and “CHESEBOROUGH MANUFACTURING CO.” and “New York, U.S.A.” Robert Augustus Chesebrough, a chemist from New York, began manufacturing petroleum products in 1858; invented the substance that would become known as Vaseline in 1870; and established the Chesebrough Co. in 1876.
label: Description
content: Ref: “R. A. CHESEBROUGH / DEAD AT AGE OF 96,” New York Times (Sept. 9, 1933), p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Balm of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0883.017
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0883.017
label: accession number
content: 1978.0883
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: carton: 1 1/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 6 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 11.43 cm x 15.5575 cm
label: Measurements
content: boxes: 1 in x 4 3/8 in x 1 in; 2.54 cm x 11.1125 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: tubes: 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 1.905 cm x 10.795 cm x 2.8575 cm