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Subject: Chemical industry


Shipping Records of Rosengarten & Sons, Philadelphia and London, 1873-1880 Shipping Records of Rosengarten & Sons, Philadelphia and London, 1873-1880

Four port of entry documents detailing shipments of raw materials to Rosengarten & Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Liverpool, England between October 1, 1873, and September 13, 1880. The documents are part of a larger collection that later describes the acquisition of Rosengarten & Sons by Merck of Germany and the subsequent formation of Merck & Co. in the United States after World War I.