Pharmaceutical Products
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Sterling Drug, Inc.
- Winthrop Chemical Company
- Bayer Company
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- Sterling Drug, Inc. Records
- Sterling Drug, Inc. Records / Series 1: Products
- Date
- 1946-1948
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0772, Subseries 1.1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Sterling Drug, Inc. Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- When the United States entered World I, the Alien Property Custodian seized the U.S. properties of many enemy aliens. Among these properties were the shares of the Bayer Company that were owned by Germans, who had sought to establish a business in the American market. After the 1918 Armistice, the government offered the Bayer stocks for sale at public auction to the highest American bidder. For $5,310,000, Sterling acquired a large plant near Albany, New York, a relatively little known product called Aspirin, and a number of pharmaceuticals. A separate Sterling subsidiary, also called The Bayer Company, was formed to market Aspirin. The success of Aspirin increased rapidly as people became aware of its therapeutic properties.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at [email protected] or 202-633-3270.
- Record ID
- ebl-1559308280284-1559308280458-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0