Guide to the Patent medicine bottle collection, 1850-1920
John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu
Published in 2023
Collection Overview
| Title: | Patent medicine bottle collection |
| Date range: | 1850-1920 |
| Creator: | Greer, David S. |
| Extent: | 7 Linear Feet 7 records center boxes |
| Abstract: | Consists of 212 patent medicine bottles and 8 objects related to patent medicine dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century and a binder of slides documenting an additional 30 bottles and 3 objects. The collection was assembled by Dr. David S. Greer, Dean of Medicine at Brown University from 1981-1992 and professor emeritus in the Community Health Department in the Division of Biology and Medicine. |
| Language of materials: | English |
| Repository: | John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts |
| Collection number: | Ms.2008.002 |
Scope & content
Dr. David S. Greer, Dean of Medicine at Brown University from 1981-1992 and professor emeritus in the Community Health Department in the Division of Biology and Medicine, assembled a collection of 242 patent medicine bottles and 11 objects dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The entire collection was donated to Brown University with 212 bottles and 8 objects stored in Special Collections at the John Hay Library (described here) and the remaining 30 bottles and 3 objects retained by the Alcohol and Addiction Studies Center and the Alpert Medical School for use as teaching aids. This collection consists of a binder of slides documenting all the bottles and the original bottles retained by the Library.Most of the bottles do not have the original labels but are imprinted to reveal the name of the medicine it contained. Medicines include Humphrey's Marvel of Healing; Paine's Celery Compound; Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine, Fever, and Ague Cure; Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription; Howard's Vegetable Cancer and Canker Syrup; Old Sachem Bitters; J. W. Poland Headache Killer; Three Crow Pine and Elm Brand Cough Syrup; Mother Winslow's Soothing Syrup; Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry; Dr. D. Jayne's Tonic; Thyroid Glands Dessicated; Piso's Cure; Hamlin's Wizard Oil; Sylphonathol; Kendall's Spavin Cure for Human Flesh; Spleen Dessicated; Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer; Dr. Beeman's Mohawk Liniment; and Tubercolozyne.
The collection also includes 8 objects related to patent medicine production and sales.
A binder containing color slides of each bottle is available upon request. Researchers must review these slides before requesting to view specific bottles.
Bibliography:
- Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The Great American. P.F. Collier & Son, 1905
- Baldwin, Joseph K. Patent and Proprietary Medicine Bottles. Thomas Nelson Inc. New York, 1973
- Blasi, Betty. A Bit About Balsams. Louisville KY, 1974
- Carson, Gerald. One for a Man Two for a Horse. Double Day & Co. Inc, New York, 1961
- Cook, James. Remedies and Rackets. W. W. Norton & Co.
- Cramp, Arthur J.M.D. Nostrums and Quackery. American Medical Association
- Degrafft, John. American Sarsaparilla Bottles. North Attleboro, MA, 1980
- Fike, Richard. The Battle Book: A Guide to Historic Medicine Bottles. Salt Lake City, 1987
- Holbrook, Stewart. The Golden Age of Quackery. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1959
- Hoist, Jim. Pontiled Medicines. 1994 & 1999
- Nielsen, Fredrick. Great American Pontiled Medicines. Medford, NJ, 1978
- Odell, John. Digger Odell Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Magazine Price Guide: Medicines. 1995
- Odell, John. Indian Bottles & Brands. Lebanon, OH, 1997
- Odell, John. Pontil Medicine Encyclopedia. Mason, OH, 2000
- Shimko, Phyllis. Sarsaparilla Bottle Encyclopedia. Aurora, OR, 1969
- Ring, Carlyn & Ham William. Bitters Bottles. Boyertown Publishing, Boyertown, PA, 1998
- Wilson, Bill & Betty. 19th Century Medicine in Glass. Amador City CA, 1971
- Young, James Harvey. The Toadstool Millionaires. Princeton University Press, 1961
Druggist Catalogs:
- American Druggist Price Book 1935
- Druggist Circular & Chemical Gazette, 1912-1917
- Meyer Brother Wholesale Drug Catalog, St. Louis. 1879
- Pharmaceutical Era, 1904-1912
- Robert Stevenson Whole Druggist Catalog, Chicago. 1888
Access Points
Subject Names Subject Organizations Subject Topics Document TypesArrangement
This collection is arranged numerically by bottle number and object number.
- Series 1: Binder of Slides
- Series 2: Bottles
- Series 3: Greer Object Collection
Biographical note
These patent medicine bottles and objects related to patent medicines were collected by Dr. David S. Greer, Dean of Medicine at Brown University from 1981-1992 and professor emeritus in the Community Health Department in the Division of Biology and Medicine.Access & Use
| Access to the collection: | Researchers are required to view the inventory and color slides of the bottles before requesting to see specific bottles in Binder 1. The bottles and objects are housed at the Library Collections Annex and can only be seen by prior appointment. |
| Use of the materials: | Researchers are advised that express written permission to reproduce, quote, or otherwise publish any portion or extract from this collection must be obtained from the Brown University Library. Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them. |
| Preferred citation: | Patent medicine bottle collection, Ms. 2008.002, Brown University Library. |
| Contact information: | John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148 Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu |
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Acquisition: | This collection was donated by Dr. David S. Greer in November 2001. The full collection of bottles and objects was donated to Brown University with 212 bottles and 8 objects stored in Special Collections at the John Hay Library and the remaining 30 bottles and 3 objects were given to the Alcohol and Addiction Studies Center and the Medical School for use as teaching aids. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Jay Gaidmore. |
| Encoding: | This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-04-18. |
| Descriptive rules: | Describing Archives: A Content Standard |
Additional Information
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Inventory
Series 1. Binder of slides
| Container | Description | Date |
| Binder of Slides Contents Note: Binder containing slides for the full collection of 242 patent medicine bottles and 11 objects dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The entire collection was donated to Brown University with 212 bottles and 8 objects stored in Special Collections at the John Hay Library (described in this finding aid) and the remaining 30 bottles and 3 objects retained by the Alcohol and Addiction Studies Center and the Alpert Medical School for use as teaching aids. |
Series 2. Bottles
| Container | Description | Date |
| Box 1, Bottle 1 | Ayer's Sarsaparilla made in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Contents Note: First advertised in 1857 the sarsaparilla was a product of Dr. James C. Ayer, practical and analytical chemist, 84 Central, boards at Merr, House (1849), Lowell, MA, Advertised 1851-1900+, Colds, coughs, hoarseness, influenza, whooping cough, croup, consumption. Testimonials to 1847, Ayer's American Almanacs begun in the early 1850s reached a worldwide audience and printed some 16,000,000-25,000,000 copies annually by the turn of the century. In 1889 the almanac was printed in 21 languages and the bindery was making 10,000 copies a day. Note: Sarsaparilla grows in swamps and hedges in the middle and southern states and its root was used as, a diuretic and the treatment of chronic rheumatism and infections of the skin. But its most extensive and useful application has been found to be in the treatment of secondary and tertiary syphilis and especially in the broken condition of the system which follows the use of mercury in these afflictions. Material for note from Warren's Household Physician which was published from 1859 in seven editions, the last being in 1901. It was the most highly regarded textbook of the period and a major reference book of physicians and medical students. Physical Description Note: No label appears to be in excellent condition. |
circa 1870-1900 |
| Box 1, Bottle 2 | Dr. Miles New Heart Cure Contents Note: A product of Dr. Franklin Miles (1845-1929) was born in Ohio schooled in Massachusetts and New York. He was a practicing physician until 1884 after going to the Chicago Medical Institute. About 1885 he moved to Elkhart, Indiana and founded the Dr. Miles Medical Institute. He was followed in business by his son around the turn of the century after he retired. It was sold shortly thereafter to a partner and eventually became Miles Lab., Inc. best known as the makers of Alka-Seltzer and (ahem) Flintstones children's vitamins. A clip of Dr. Miles Nervine (1954) can be found at http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb.qtclips/nervine1.mov The Nervine was his best seller but he also was producing Nerve and Liver Pills, Tonic, Sarsaparilla Wine, Restorative Blood Purifier and the New Heart Cure (1905 Pharmaceutical Era) by 1912 the New Heart Cure name was changed to Miles New Heart Remedy to conform with the rules of the 1906 Food & Drug Act. The sample bottles are more common than the full size. Physical Description Note: No label appears to be in excellent condition. |
circa 1900 |
| Box 1, Bottle 3 | Indian Vegetable Cough Syrup Blood Purifier Contents Note: Product of S.B. Golf of Camden, NJ ad: 1890s. S.B. Goff and Sons Co, Leroy, NY (1935) Kemp and Lane Inc., Leroy, NY (1948) Physical Description Note: No label good condition. |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 1, Bottle 4 | bottle reads "prescribed by R.V. Pierce, MD," Buffalo, NY Physical Description Note: inside stain, no label |
| Binder 1, Slide 5 | Dr. Herrick's Family Medicine Contents Note: 60% label bottle reads, "Rennes Pain Killing Oil 79 1/2% alcohol. Clean, safe and reliable. Price .50, St. Louis, Missouri." James T. Ballard, St. Louis, MO produced a line of medicine including Dr. Herrick's medicines (See p 16 of The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines (1905) reprinted articles from A.M.A.). This bottle is the medium size of Rennes Magic Pain Killing Oil. (See also Rennes) Physical Description Note: Partial label for Renne's Magic Pain Killing Oil |
| Box 1, Bottle 6 | Dr. Hubbard's Vegetable Disinfectant, Deodorizer and Germicide, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular in half pint, pint, gallon and half gallon sizes. Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1900+ |
| Box 1, Bottle 7 | Syrup of Black Draught Contents Note: Probably a product of Chattanooga Medicine Co. Dr. Thedford's Black Draught a liver medicine. Used since 1879 Box shows portrait of A.Q. Simmons Trademark files July 5, 1911. Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1900+ |
| Box 1, Bottle 8 | Mother Winslow's Soothing Syrup Contents Note: Bottle reads "the Anglo-American Drug Company successor to Curtis and Perkins proprietors", Inventor, Jeramiah Curtis & Benjamin A. Perkins, Jeramiah moved from Bangor to NYC (1854); George M. Curtis and Jeremiah 48 Fulton SI (1856); Principal Office No 13 Cedar St.(1858); J. Curtis Jr. joins (1858); Curtis & Brown (1860-1875) (Wilson), NYC, NY, Advertised 1858-59, First sold 1849. Named for Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow, Jeramiah Curtis' mother-in-law. Contained Morphia sulphate. For teething, sore gums and to regulate the bowel, dysentery, Listed Meyer Bros, & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, (1879); Pharmaceutical Era (1905): Anglo-American Drug Co. 215 Fulton St. NYC, Ad: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Aug, 8, 1859, Mrs. Winslow's // Soothing Syrup // Curtis & Perkins // Proprietors, aqua, 5 1/8, cylinder, rolled. Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1890s |
| Box 1, Bottle 9 | Miller's Haynes Genuine Arabian Balsam, E. Morgan and Sons, Providence,
Rhode Island Contents Note: Providence, RI. The balsam was advertised as a cure for Piles, croup, deafness diphtheria. Product was made from cottonseed oil, turpentine and oil of cumin. Late in in its life span it became known as Miller's Hayne's Arabian Balsam. Note: Balsams were taken from the saps of trees and shrubs and invariably diluted with alcohol. Invented by A. Haynes, M.D. South Braintree, MA. Advertised 1860, Bums, poisoning, rheumatism, wounds, pains, dysentery, stoppages or inflammation of the bowels. None genuine without the likeness of the inventor. Price 25 cents. NEBD, 1860. 1916 Druggist Circular. Physical Description Note: Stained, no label |
circa 1900 |
| Box 1, Bottle 10 | Rubifoam, for the teeth, Put up by E. W. Hought (Hoyt) and Co., Lowell,
Massachusetts Contents Note: Eli W. Hoyt began as a druggist in Lowell about 1867. He had worked as a clerk before entered the business himself. He and a partner, Freeman B. Shedd (1872). The company grew with the success of two major brands, Hoyt's German Cologne and Rubifoam for the Teeth. Mass marketing began in the 1880s. The product was listed as late as 1935 and probably was sold much later. The company made extensive use of lithograph trade cards to market their product. Physical Description Note: Some inside stain. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Box 1, Bottle 11 | The Store of Quality, Harville Drug Co., Thomasville, North
Carolina |
circa 1900 |
| Box 1, Bottle 12 | Strabmuller's Elixir, bottom of the bottle reads, "tree of life" back
of bottle reads, "nectar of the golden life of health and vitality" Contents Note: This bottle is a reproduction. The bottom marked Wheaton indicates it was blown in Wheaton NJ sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. This bottle is known in at least four colors amber, amethyst, blue and green. |
circa 1968-1975 |
| Box 1, Bottle 13 | Humphrey's Marvel of Healing Contents Note: Product of Frederick Humphrey, NY contained witch hazel. He trademarked the salve in 1878. (Denver) Sold in three sizes. Humphrey Med. Co., New York, Ad: Trumansburg Free Press (NY) April 13, 1895 (Baldwin) Listed in 6 oz., pint and quart sizes as a product of Humphrey Homeopathic Medicine Co., 156 Williams St. NY (Druggist Circular 1912). |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 14 | King's Juniper Tar Cough Balsam, George W. Morrison, Co. Clinton,
Massachusetts |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 15a | "Davis" Pain Killer Contents Note: Perry Davis (1791-1862) & son (Edmund), manufacturers and proprietors. 74 High St. (1849-1860). manufactory at 43 Pond and 72 High (1852), Providence, RI. Perry Davis was a carpenter, when he discovered his formula and began selling the medicine in a basket. His neighbors told him he was foolish to desert his trade. But he never doubted his ability and moved from Fall River MA (some sources say Taunton, MA) about 1843 to Providence, RI and became proprietor of the Vegetable Pain Killer ad was listed "Physician." Edmund ran the business after his father's death. |
circa 1890 |
| Box 1, Bottle 16 | Dose measuring bottle from the Measuring Appliance Company, Providence,
Rhode Island Contents Note: I was not able to find anything similar in the dozen or so Druggist sundry catalogs I checked from 1888-1915. This is a very unique item and was probably not popular. |
| Box 1, Bottle 17 | Tuttles Elixir, Boston, Massachusetts |
circa 1894-1910 |
| Box 1, Bottle 18 | Sarsaparilla bottle Contents Note: Hood's Sarsaparilla |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 19 | Kilmer's Swamp Root and Bladder Cure, Kidney and Liver Contents Note: Note: Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root was named for its discoverer who practiced medicine in Binghamton, New York. He was said to have been given the secret formula by local Indians. The promoter of Swamp Root was Dr. Kilmer's nephew, a flamboyant extroverted young man who applied newly developed advertising techniques which sold millions of bottles worldwide. He died a multimillionaire and left five baronial estates in various countries, race horses and several despondent women. Physical Description Note: This is the small size. |
circa 1880-1906 |
| Box 1, Bottle 20 | Mexican Mustang Liniment Contents Note: G. W. Westbrook, originator and sole proprietor, St Louis, Bragg and McLean successor to G.W. Westbrook, Cor. Third & Market (1851) Addison G. Bragg & Co. became sole proprietors, (1852); Addison G. Bragg at 304 Broadway (1852-54), NYC, NY (note: this was Barnes and Park's Address) Barnes & Park, proprietor (1858); Advertised 1852-1858. For rheumatism, sprains, Poll-evils, for people or horses. Put up in three sizes. Price 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00. Ad in 1854 states some 15 million bottles have been sold. Listed in 1905 Pharmaceutical Era: Lyon's Mtg. Co., 41 S 5th, Brooklyn, NY. See also: McLean's Volcanic, Cincinnati Enquirer Dec 9, 1851. Mexican / Mustang / Liniment (horizontally), aqua, 7 3/8, cylinder, tc, IP or OP; Mexican // Mustang // Liniment (vertically) aqua, 4 1/4 or 5 1/2, cyl rolled; 6 1/4 cylinder, tc. Physical Description Note: This is the rarest size but the condition is very bad with much inside and outside stain. |
circa 1880s |
| Box 1, Bottle 21 | Three Crow Pine and Elm Brand Cough Syrup Contents Note: 99% label Contains not over 11% alcohol. It is produced by the Atlantic Spice Co., Rockland Maine. The name at the top of the bottle is three Crow shooting Trademark and a picture of three crows. Physical Description Note: Excellent condition with nice graphic on label. |
| Binder 1, Slide 22 | Cooper's New Discovery Contents Note: Listed 1905 Pharmaceutical Era by Cooper Medicine Co. 113 East Second, Dayton, OH. He also was selling a medicated soap, New Cough Remedy, New Herb Discovery, Prairie Flower, and Cooper's Quick Relief. Listed 1912 Druggist Circular address on First St., Dayton, OH lists Cooper's Nervine. Listed 1916 (Denver). 1935 by Benjamin Rosenweig, 114 Lawrence St. Brooklyn, NY (Fike) Physical Description Note: 1900-1916 |
circa 1900-1916 |
| Box 1, Bottle 23 | "Scott's Emulsion" with Lime and soda Contents Note: From the Journal A.M.A. Oct 13, 1906, 1207. "The introduction of cod-liver oil as a supposedly easily assimilable nutrient and reconstructive was followed by its extensive use in wasting diseases especially in phthisis, in the treatment of which it came to be considered almost essential, as it was supposed to possess some mysterious power different from that of other oils. Its unpalatable character led to various devices to render it tasteless and to make it more acceptable to the stomach. Emulsions containing the oil in mixture with other substances were put on the market and served a useful purpose. Physical Description Note: Poor condition inside and outside stain. |
| Binder 1, Slide 24 | J.L. Matthieu's Cough Syrup, Marlboro, Massachusetts, formally syrup of
tar and cod-liver oil Contents Note: Listed as Mathieu's Tar and Oil (1914 International Druggist Price Supplement). Listed as Mathieu's Cough Syrup (1935) |
circa 1914 |
| Binder 1, Slide 25 | OPODELDOC Contents Note: This is a generic bottle that was used by a number of companies. The medicine was a well known and very old remedy. It would have been brought over from England by the earliest settlers. |
circa 1830-1850 |
| Box 1, Bottle 26 | Hood's Saponaceous Tooth Powder Contents Note: A preserver and beautifier for the teeth. Prepared only by C.I. Hood and Co. Lowell, Massachusetts Physical Description Note: Complete label and stopper. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Box 1, Bottle 27 | Kodol for indigestion Contents Note: It is a pleasant, palatable, agreeable preparation. It tastes good, it tones and nourishes. It makes your stomach feel good. Don't dilute Kodol, take it just as is. Kodol is absolutely free from any opiate, narcotic, or harmful drug. It can be taken with perfect safety. Take a dose whenever you feel the need of it. You can take one teaspoon or two. Kodol is a sure digestant. It is clean, pure, nourishing, enriches the blood, and makes the stomach feel healthy and well. E.C. Dwitt and Co., Chicago and New York, USA. Physical Description Note: Label and contents. |
| Box 1, Bottle 28 | Dr. J. Hostetters Stomach Bitters Contents Note: David Hostetter (1819-1888) & George W. Smith (died 1884), J.H. Hostetter (1854); 267 Penn (1852), Pittsburgh, PA, Advertised 1852-1854, David Hostetter, son of Dr. Jacob Hostetter, began the Bitters business with a boyhood friend, George W. Smith when the elder Hostetter retired. David Hostetter was born in 1819 in Lancaster Pa. He started in the dry goods business in Pittsburgh. Struck by gold fever he moved to California where he soon went bust. After he returned to Pittsburgh he took the prescription of his father and built his patent medicine business. Over ten thousand bottles sold during the short time since it was introduced into the city as a Spring Medicine (1854). 100,000 bottles sold in one year (1857); the Hostetter United States Almanac began in 1866. Annual printings ranged from 10 to 13 million copies by the end of the century. When David Hostetter died, his son, David Herbert Hostetter ran the business. He died in 1924. His son, Frederick was president until his death in 1930; then D. Herbert Hostetter, Jr., the last of the line to run the company did so until 1934, when he sold it. Physical Description Note: No Label, excellent collection. |
circa 1870-1890 |
| Binder 1, Slide 29 | "Dr. King's New Discovery" the side of bottle reads, "H.E. Bucklen and
Company", the opposite side, "Chicago Illinois" Physical Description Note: Sample size bottle. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Box 1, Bottle 30 | Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, Rochester New York Contents Note: Note: H.H. Warner was the originator of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure a nostrum of the late 19th Century. Warner was actually a safe salesman with a terrific idea. He promoted a line of remedies with a unique logo — an iron — which became his trademark. One the proceeds of his kidney and liver cure, Warner became an international patron of the arts and a friend of celebrates. Physical Description Note: No label, some haze. |
circa 1886-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 31 | Mosso's Oil-O-Sol Contents Note: Company started in 1855 in Dryden, NY by C.A. Mosso. His best known product was his Monarch Liniment. The name might well have been changed later to "Oil-O-Sol." Some confusion is raised by the entry in the 1935 American Druggist Price Book which lists the product as "Oil-O-Sail." This may be a printing error. Listed as C.A. Mosso Laboratories (1935). Physical Description Note: Includes box, label and contents. |
circa 1920-1940 |
| Box 1, Bottle 32 | Dr. Hand's Colic Mixture for Wind Colic and Sour Stomach Contents Note: Product of Hand Medicine Co. of Philadelphia, PA. 1914 International Druggist listed this product as Hand's Colic Cure 1935 American Druggist listed the product as Hand's Colic Remedy. Physical Description Note: Box, label and some contents. |
circa 1940 |
| Box 1, Bottle 33 | J. W. Poland, headache killer Contents Note: DR. J.W. POLAND'S WHITE PINE COMPOUND. Probably James W. Poland; J.W. Poland, Goffstown Centre, NH (1860); proprietor Geo. W. Sweet, M.D. Boston (1865) Concord, NH, Advertised 1865, Baldwin lists J.W. Poland's Diarrhoea Elixir (1868), Headache Killer (1856) and Indian Pile Remedy (1868), Listed Meyer Bros, & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, 1879; Pharmaceutical Era, 1905 New England Business Directory 1860, Dr. J.W. Poland's / White Pine / Compound, aqua, 6 5/8, oval sc, Also 1869 ad listed J.W. Poland, Humor Doctor Physical Description Note: Price quoted assumes bottle is smooth based. |
circa 1856-1860 |
| Binder 1, Slide 34 | Hiawatha Restorative, on side of the bottle, "minehaha" Contents Note: HOYT'S HIAWATHA HAIR RESTORATIVE, Joseph Hoyt (1860); Joseph Hoyt & Co. (1864), 20 Hanover (1860); 10 University Place (1864), Boston, MA, Advertised 1861. To restore faded and gray hair. It is possible Hoyt purchased this brand about 1860, listed 1885 McKesson & Robbins Catalog (Fadely), Minehaha / Hiawatha // Hair // Restorative / Mudjekee Wis, 6 3/4, rectangular Physical Description Note: Price quoted assumes bottle is smooth based. |
circa 1860 |
| Box 1, Bottle 35 | Dr. S. A. Tuttle, Boston, MA Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1910 |
| Box 1, Bottle 36 | Atwood's jaundice Bitters, formally made by Moses Atwood, Georgetown,
MA Contents Note: Moses Carter & Son, successors to Moses Atwood, Georgetown, MA Moses Carter listed (1860), He acquired partial rights to the Bitters in 1855 and sold it through 1875; John F. Henry, Manhattan Med. Co, NYC proprietor (1877); Atwood's Bitter's, Hall & Ruckel, 215 Washington, NYC (1905), Atwood's Quinine Tonic Bitters, Gilman Bros. 50 Franklin St. Boston MA, Pharmaceuticals Era, (1905). New England Business Directory 1860, Atwood's // Jaundice Bitters // M. Carter & Son // Georgetown // Mass. aqua 6 1/8, 12 sided, sc. Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1910 |
| Box 1, Bottle 37 | C. B. Rogers and Company, Apothecaries, Jamaica Plain Contents Note: The bottle is a generic prescription bottle caused "Philadelphia Oval" with a slug plate. Thousands of druggists produced such bottles. Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1880-1910 |
| Box 1, Bottle 38 | William E. Clarke, Pharmacist, Providence, Rhode Island Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1880-1910 |
| Box 1, Bottle 39 | Dr. D. Jayne's Tonic, Vermifuge, 242 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia Contents Note: Dr. David Jayne, inventor and sole proprietor, Advertised 1838, For sour stomach, fever and ague, tapeworms, indigestion, price 50 cents (1838), listed in Robert Stevenson & Co, Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888), Listed Druggist Circular (1915). Dr. D. Jayne & Son, 242 Chestnut, Philadelphia. See also: Jayne's Expectorant, Jayne's Carminative, Ad: Saturday Evening Post Nov. 10. 1838, Dr. D. Jayne's // Tonic Vermifuge // 84 Chestnut St. Phila, aqua, 4 13/16, oval, rolled, sc, flared; Dr. D. Jayne's // Tonic // Vermifuge // Philad.a, aqua, 5 /14, square, flared (This is the older of the two) Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1870-1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 40a | Piso's Cure, (on one side of the bottle) "for consumption", (on the
other side) Hazeltine and Company Contents Note: From the Great American Fraud, Piso Consumption Cure, extensively advertised a year or two ago (two years prior to 1905), is apparently withdrawing from the field, so far as consumption goes and the Piso people are now more modestly promising to cure coughs and colds. Old analyses give as the contents of the Piso's Cure for Consumption, alcohol, chloroform, opium, and cannabis indica (hasheesh). Company established, 1872. Physical Description Note: No label, some haze. |
circa 1880-1906 |
| Box 2, Bottle 41 | Glovers Imperial Mange Remedy, H. Clay Glover Company, New
York Contents Note: This variant has oz. Embossed Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1906-1915 |
| Box 2, Bottle 42 | Cabot's lujiho-napthol, Boston, Massachusetts Physical Description Note: No label, stain. |
circa 1870-1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 43 | Kendall's Spavin Cure for human flesh Contents Note: Product invented by W.A. Kendall, physician in Enosburgh Falls, VT (1850-1870s). Benjamin J. Kendall first bottled the medicine about 1876. The product moved into the national spotlight under the management of Henry D. Kendall who took over in 1881. An amber variant which is very common was for animals and the aqua bottle for humans. Physical Description Note: No label, stain. |
circa 1880-1906 |
| Binder 1, Slide 44 | S. A. Tuttle, Boston, Massachusetts Contents Note: Probably a later variant of a similar bottle embossed: Tuttle's Elixir Co. Boston, Mass, Samuel A. Tuttle, operated a stable in 1883 and was proprietor of Tuttle's Elixir in 1885. Billed as a product for man or beast. The Tuttle Elixir company was established in 1894 and operated until 1968 (Fike) Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1910 |
| Box 2, Bottle 45 | Minard's Liniment, Boston Contents Note: 1886 Minard's Liniment Mfg. Co. Boston, MA. 1900 Minard's Liniment Mfg. Co. S. Framingham, MA, 1916 internal and external use for rheumatism, pleurisy, quinsy, tonsillitis and lung troubles. Also produced Minard's Pills, Spruce Balsam, Blood Purifier, and Vegetable Tonic (Denver) Physical Description Note: Clear variant probably after. |
after 1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 46 | Red Sea Balsam, New Bedford, Massachusetts Contents Note: Product originally was A.D. Ashley's Red sea Balsam Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 47 | Sawyers Novelty Blacking patented March 4, 1873 Contents Note: This is not a medicine bottle but a blacking for stoves. |
circa 1875-1880 |
| Box 2, Bottle 48 | Inflammatory Extirpator and Cleanser, G. W. Davis Contents Note: N.Y. Lyon, Fall River, MA, Advertised 1856, For toothache, sore throat, headache, cold sores, dysentery, coughs, colds, sour stomach, croup, chilblains Ad: Springfield MA Republican and Gazette Oct. 8, 1856 Physical Description Note: No label, stain, clear |
circa 1890 |
| Binder 1, Slide 49 | American Anodyne Liniment, Johnson's Contents Note: Abner Johnson, Isaac Johnson, son, Bangor, ME, Advertised 1830. Listed in Meyer Bros, & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, 1879, Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888); Listed in 1905 The Pharmaceutical Era. I.S. Johnson, 22 Custom House St., Boston, MA. Moved to Boston in the 1870s. Johnson's // American // Anodyne // Liniment, clear or aqua, 4 3/8, cylinder, flared or rolled Physical Description Note: No label, ABM with three point cap. |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 2, Bottle 50 | Sylphonathol Contents Note: Listed 1916 Druggist Circular sold in 10, 25, 75 and 2.00 sizes. Also half gallon and gallon cans by Beh & Herter, 176 Franklin St. New York Physical Description Note: No label, ABM |
circa 1915-1920 |
| Box 2, Bottle 51 | Hind's Honey and Almond Cream, E. S. Hind's and Company, Bloomfield,
New Jersey, USA Contents Note: Aurelius S. Hinds (1870-1925) invented the Honey and Almond Cream and first sold it over the counter at his drugstore in Portland. It was distributed nationally by the family run business. Sold in 11 ounce, 4 1/2 ounce and 7/8 ounce sizes by Lehn & Fink Inc. (1925+), Bloomfield N.J. (1935 American Druggist Price Book) Physical Description Note: No label, ABM screw top |
circa 1940 |
| Box 2, Bottle 52 | Dr. Job Sweet's Relaxative Ointment, New Bedford,
Massachusetts Contents Note: Also produced Dr. Job Sweet's Sprain Liniment. Advertised in the New England Business Directory 1871. Physical Description Note: No label, applied tip. |
circa 1870s |
| Box 2, Bottle 53 | Dr. Humphrey's Specifics, New York Physical Description Note: No label, ground lip with cap |
circa 1895-1910 |
| Box 2, Bottle 54 | Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, Philadelphia Contents Note: Henry Wistar (Casper Wistar by one account); Isaac Butts, apothecary, Canterbury, Ct (1830s); Purchased by John D. Park (1842), Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry was introduced in the year 1838.. The only genuine article always bears the written signature of Isaac Butt's Originally prepare by Williams & Co, Philadelphia (1841). Now prepared by Seth W. Fowle, Boston, Ma. (1848), For sale by J.D. Parks (1849); NYT ad says Isaac Butts (1853); Listed R. Stevenson & Co. Druggist Catalog (1888); Pharmaceutical Era (1905) Seth W. Fowle & Sons, 81 High St, Boston; DC (1915); proprietor, John D. Park & Sons, Co., Cincinnati, OH, CE, July 4th 1852. It appears the ownership of this brand was probably shared as evidenced by it being sold by several concerns at the same time. Listed in two sizes 1935 American Druggist Price Book. Physical Description Note: This is the sample size, no label, haze. |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 55 | Geo. C. Frye, Whitland, Maine Contents Note: George C. Frye listed Corner of Free and Oak St. Portland, Maine. Products listed included: Pancreobismuth, Lithaited Saline, Hydrocarbonine Spray and Almondine. (1935 American Druggist Price Book) Physical Description Note: No label, wide mouth flint glass probably salts of some sort. Unusual form nice mortar and pestle embossed. |
| Box 2, Bottle 56 | Morses Indian Root Pills Contents Note: First sold in Buffalo about 1850. Purchased by Comstock Company in 1855. Managed my Wm. Cornstock after 1866. The company moved to Morristown, NJ in 1867. Label was patented in 1879 and again in 1881. Sales peaked about 1910 at that time the pills were being put up in yellow tins. Pills were still being manufactured in parts of the world in the 1970s. Physical Description Note: No label, tooled tip |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 2, Bottle 57 | Alexander's Tricobaphe, made by R. and G. A. Wright,
Philadelphia Contents Note: George A. Wright (1838); Richard & George A. Wright, brothers, (1844-1870s); George A. Wright & Co, (1880), 624 Chestnut (1860), Philadelphia, PA, Advertised 1846, Instantaneously changes the hair from/to a beautiful brown or black without injury to the hair or skin. Maybe the same product as Alexander's Tricopherous TED, New Orleans, Oct. 13, 1846, Alexander's // Tricobaphe // R & G.A. Wright // Philad a, aqua, 2 1/2 or 3, 6 sided, rolled Physical Description Note: No label, some haze. |
circa 1840-1855 |
| Box 2, Bottle 58 | Johnson's American Anodyne Liniment Contents Note: Abner Johnson, Isaac Johnson, son, Bangor, ME, Advertised 1830, Listed in Meyer Bros & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, 1879; Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888); Listed in 1905 The Pharmaceutical Era, I.S. Johnson, 22 Custom House St. Boston, MA. Moved to Boston in the 1870s. Johnson's // American // Anodyne // Liniment, clear or aqua, 4 3/8, cylinder, flared or rolled. Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Book owned by Etna Chemical Co, NY. Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 59 | Dr. McLane's American Worm Specific Contents Note: Holmes & Kidd (1841); Jonathan Kidd & Co. (J Fleming) (1847); Fleming has his own store by 1854; Fleming Brothers successors to J. Kidd & Co., No. 60 Wood St (1844-1847), Pittsburgh, PA, Advertised 1839-1847, Sold as Dr. McLean's Vermifuge or American Vermifuge. Also sold a Balsam of Liverwort WS, Lebanon, OH Mar. 22, 1839. Doctor // McLane's // American Worm // Specific, aqua, 3 7/8, vial, rolled; similar except, Doctor // McLanes // American Worm Specific Physical Description Note: No label, stain. |
circa 1840-1855 |
| Box 2, Bottle 60 | Atwood's Vegetable Physical Jaundice Bitters Contents Note: This bottle reads "alcohol 13 1/2% (27% proof made for the Manhattan Medicine Company, New York" Hall & Rucket are listed as owners of the Manhattan Medicine Company (1905) Physical Description Note: 95% label. |
circa 1906-1915 |
| Box 2, Bottle 61 | Extract of Cascara Sagrada Contents Note: Abner Johnson, Isaac Johnson, son, Bangor, ME, Advertised 1830, Listed in Meyer Bros & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, 1879; Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888); Listed in 1905 The Pharmaceutical Era, I.S. Johnson, 22 Custom House St. Boston, MA. Moved to Boston in the 1870s. Johnson's // American // Anodyne // Liniment, clear or aqua, 4 3/8, cylinder, flared or rolled. Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Book owned by Etna Chemical Co, NY. Physical Description Note: 90% label partial degraded. |
circa 1907-1918 |
| Box 2, Bottle 62 | Dr. Seth Arnolds Balsam Contents Note: Compounded of Pure Extracts or Vegetables . Instantaneous relief and perfectly safe remedy for spasmodic cholera, dysentery, and diarrhea. Prepared only by Dr. Seth Arnold, professor of chemistry, anatomy, surgery, Woonsocket, RI. Advertised 1847, 25 cents. Business began in New London, Ct. about 1840. He may have moved to Rhode Island as suggested in the 1847 ad. Owned by Gilman Bros. (1866); Listed in Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888) 3 sizes. NCTEC, April 24, 1847, Dr. Seth Arnold's // Balsam, aqua, 4 3/4, rectangular, flared; Dr. S. / Arnold's // Balsam, aqua, 2 1/4, 8 sided, flared. Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Book. Owned by John A. Gilman estate, Boston, MA Physical Description Note: 100% label, cork. |
circa 1866-1895 |
| Box 2, Bottle 63 | "Dr. Beemans Mohawk Liniment, Manufactured by the Mohawk Medicine
Company, Elizabeth, New Jersey Contents Note: On front: "Prepared by the original Indian formula for the cure of rheumatism, neuralgia, burns, scalds, bruises, frostbite, toothache, headache, sore throat, diphtheria, lame back, sprains, bunions, corns, bites of insects, etc... Directions, bath frequently till perfectly relieved. Manufactured by the Mohawk Medicine Company, Elizabeth, New Jersey. Sold by druggists. Price 25 cents." On back: "The Mohawk Liniment was obtained by a tribe of Indians inhabiting Central New York, by Dr. William Rose from England, about the year 1786. The doctor used it in his practice the remainder of his life and after his death it became the property of his son, William Rose Jr. of Binghamton, New York and of him it was purchased by the present proprietor in 1861." Dr. Ephraim Beeman managed a medical practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey from 1871 to 1888. In 1888, Beeman became proprietor of the Mohawk Medicine Company at 49 Pine St. He ran the business at that address until 1893 when he moved to 457 Franklin St. By 1907 he was no longer listed. |
| Box 2, Bottle 64 | Thermex is Contents Note: For chest colds, bronchitis, bruises, rheumatism, stiff neck, sprains, sore or stiff muscles, and tonsillitis. It is made by the R.T. French Company, Rochester, New York. It is composed of goose grease, volatile oil of mustard and other ingredients. Physical Description Note: Box, label and some contents. |
circa 1940 |
| Box 2, Bottle 65 | Red Sea Balsam Contents Note: For external and internal us. Active ingredients, include oil of turpentine and oil of eucalyptus. Price 35 cents. Made by the Red Sea Balsam Company, Fall River, Massachusetts. The package label reads, "Red Sea Balsam has been used successfully for over 50 years as an aid for the relief of coughs and hoarseness due to colds." "A favorite home remedy since 1887." Physical Description Note: Box, label and some contents. |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 2, Bottle 66 | Pain Killer (bottle reads on the front-shown), "vegetable pain killer",
"Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer, Providence, Rhode Island" Contents Note: Front of bottle: "Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer Manufactured by Perry Davis & Son, Providence, RI" with stamp in red ink: "Manufactured by Davis & Lawrence Co. New York" Back of bottle: "This mixture contains 91% proof spirit and 24/100 gr. opium to a dram. Ordinary dose: Adult teaspoonful, children 4 to 12 years 1/2 teaspoonful, infants 1 to 4 years, 15 drops. Diluted to wineglass or more sweetened water for adults and children in proportion. (See directions around bottle) Adult dose when diluted will then contain 3% alcohol and 24/100 grain from opium, smaller doses proportionately less. Repeat the dose every half hour till relieved. It is perfectly harmless (except in the case of infants under one year; to whom it should not be given) and can be taken internally or externally. Principal Label: Davis & Lawrence Co., New York" Physical Description Note: 99% front and back label. |
circa 1890 |
| Box 2, Bottle 67 | J. M. Grosvenor, MD, Liver Aid (the directions on the bottle are in
Spanish, German and English) Contents Note: Produced by Carswell Drug Company, Americus, GA (1913-1935) Produced by Williams Co. Philadelphia (1905 Pharmaceutical Era) Physical Description Note: 85% label. |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 68 | Ponds Extract Contents Note: Dr. Pond, Ithaca, NY (1850); Pond's Extract Co. (1915) NYC, NY, Advertised 1852, About 1850, Dr. Fredrick Humphreys, of the Homeopathic Remedies fame, moved to Ithaca, NY, where he came into contact with Dr. Pond who interested him in the manufacture of an extract of witch hazel. Dr. Humphreys devised a means of fixing the problem of rapid evaporation, and he bought the rights of manufacture and the name and began production of Pond's Extract retaining the name for its apparent trademark value. Under his management the sales of the product grew tremendously. In 1872 he sold out to Mr. F.W. Hurt, later it was to become the Pond's Extract Co. It was an internal and external remedy. Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog: Large, medium, small and Veterinary (1 gal. and 1 qt. sizes) (1888); DC: proprietor, Pond's Extract Co. 131 Hudson St, NYC, 3 sizes, vanishing cream, Cold Cream, soap, dentifrice (1915), Pond's / Extract, aqua, 5 1/4 or 4 1/16, rectangular, tc. (Greer) Physical Description Note: No label. |
| Box 2, Bottle 69 | Sloan's Liniment Kills Pain, 18 fluid ounces (actually it has the stuff
in there) Contents Note: Earl S. Sloan (1848-1923) from Logan County, Ohio, Earl Sloan, son of Susan and Andrew Sloan, was born and spent his childhood in a log house (the original no longer exists) directly across the street from the library. Not much is known about his childhood except that the family was poor and Earl did not complete his formal schooling. His father worked at the village livery and was a self-taught veterinarian who sold homemade horse liniment (it is supposed the natives supplied him with the original formula). Earl quit his schooling and apprenticed as a harness maker. In 1871, he took his father's liniment recipe and left Zanesfield for Missouri, where his brother traded horses. While working with his brother, Early began hawking the horse tonic locally. After finding it a good sale item, the brothers traveled to fairs and carnivals selling the liniment. At one point, they discovered that a man had taken the tonic for himself and had claimed it was good for man or beast. The slogan "Good for Man or Beast" was born. The liniment sold so well in Missouri that Early traveled to Chicago. He advertised his tonic in newspaper and on streets. Physical Description Note: Contents and cork. |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 70 | Ashtray Rheumatic and Neuralgic Paste Contents Note: I can't easily evaluate this item. It might be a modern piece. |
| Binder 1, Slide 71 | Miller's Oil, formally known as snake oil Contents Note: It does not contain snake oil (this is what says on the bottle) An agreeable liniment, an external preparation containing camphor, turpentine, coal oil, paprika, carbolic acid, eucalyptus coves, origanium sassafras and menthol salicylate. Recommended for the relief of superficial aches and pains due to exposure or exertion. Price 50 cent. Physical Description Note: 100% label, contents, and plastic cap. |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 2, Bottle 72 | Harris' Pure Extract, Jamaica Ginger. Manufactured by Frankie Harrison
Company, Binghamton, New York Contents Note: Alcohol 88% for medicinal purposes. The best stimulant and tonic ever used. Cramps, colic, internal pain, and summer complaints are promptly relieved. Invaluable for chills, colds and maladies arising from the sudden changes in weather. Physical Description Note: 99% label some staining, cork. |
circa 1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 73 | Porter's Pain King Contents Note: 1905 Pharmaceutical Era produced by the Frank O. Reddish & Co., Leroy, NY, 1935 American Druggist price Book lists Geo. Rundle Co. Piqua, OH as owner. Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 74 | Dr. True's Elixir, established 1851, Dr. J.F. True Company, Inc.
Auburn, Maine Contents Note: Billed as Family Laxative and Worm Expeller (1870s). Gargle, Liniment, and Pain Destroying compound 1899. 1914 International Druggist listed True's Elixir in three sizes. Baldwin lists Dr. John F. True & Company, Auburn, ME for True's Pin Worm Elixir advertised August 17, 1887 in Squirrel Island Squid. (ME) Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 2, Bottle 75 | Hunt's Liniment Contents Note: Prepared by Geo. E. Stanton, proprietor Sing Sing, NY for rheumatism and diseases of the spine. Listed 1888 Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog. Physical Description Note: No label, some stain. |
circa 1845-1858 |
| Box 3, Bottle 76 | Dr. Shoop's Family Medicine, "Dr. Shoop's Restorative" Racine,
Wisconsin, for stomach, kidneys, and heart Contents Note: Dr. C. Irving Shoop had a large list of patent medicines among which were Cough cure, Croup Cure, Fever Cure, Night cure, Pain Panacea, a Sarsaparilla and others. They probably almost all used the same bottle with different labels. Shoop made a fortune from his products and is credited with creating Michigan Blvd (Racine) and donated what is now Shoop Park and Golf Course. He employed up to 350 men and the company put out more than 2000 bottles a day around 1900. (Shimko) Physical Description Note: 80% label. |
circa 1892-1920 |
| Box 3, Bottle 77 | Dr. S.H. Thompson Steral Tube, June 13, 1922 |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 3, Bottle 78 | E.M. Johnson Druggist, Middleboro, Massachusetts |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 79 | Minard's Liniment Contents Note: Minard Liniment Mfg. Co. Boston, MA (1886) Minard's Liniment Mfg. Company South Framingham known as Minard's King of Pain Liniment. The company also sold Minard's King Rheumatism Cure, Kidney Cure and several other medicines (191301916 Druggist Circular), Minard Company, Framingham, MA. Listed Liniment in four sizes (1935 American Druggist Price Book) Recommended for rheumatism and even lung trouble. |
circa 1910 |
| Box 3, Bottle 80 | F.W. Kinsman and Company Druggist, New York City |
circa 1880-1890 |
| Binder 1, Slide 81 | Sulfate of Morphine 1/8 ounce, Powers and Weightman,
Philadelphia Contents Note: A cache of these were found. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Box 3, Bottle 82 | Essence of Peppermint |
circa 1830-1840 |
| Box 3, Bottle 83 | Edward Heffernan, Lynn Massachusetts, Sole Proprietor. French Remedy
for Colds, Throat and lung troubles |
circa 1890-1915 |
| Box 3, Bottle 84 | Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine Contents Note: Lydia Pinkham first commercialized her Compound in 1875. She died a rich woman in 1883. Product was immensely popular and may well be still being sold today. There were Pinkham jokes editorials, students wrote for her for advice on many matters. A song was composed about her. Lydia was a folk hero. The product was for women's complaints. |
circa 1910-1920 |
| Box 3, Bottle 85 | The Reliable Old-Time Medicine for Home Use Contents Note: A product of Peter Fahrney of Chicago, IL |
circa 1918 |
| Box 3, Bottle 86 | Rolf's New Medical Discovery Belfast Maine Contents Note: An obvious competitor of Kennedy's New Discovery and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery this product never gained the popularity of the other two. Listed in 1912 Druggist Circular. Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1912 |
| Box 3, Bottle 87 | Pepsenia-Essence of Pepsine-Fairchild Contents Note: Listed in the 1912-1916 Druggist Circular as Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine |
circa 1912 |
| Box 3, Bottle 88 | Fever & Ague cure Contents Note: RHODE'S FEVER & AGUE CURE. James A. Rhodes, proprietor Providence, RI, Advertised 1855-1856. One Norris Felt is listed in 1856 as a traveling agent for Rhodes Fever & Ague Cure. Listed in 1905 Pharmaceutical Era: R.E. Rhode, N. Clark, Chicago, Il. OCCD 1858, Rhode's // Antidote / To / Malaria // Fever & Ague Cure, aqua, 8 1/4, rectangular, tc; same but without Antidote to Malaria on front. |
circa 1860 |
| Box 3, Bottle 89 | Appolinaris Mineral Water Contents Note: Listed 1905 Pharmaceutical Era in pints, quarts and splits. Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents, crown top |
circa 1915 |
| Box 3, Bottle 90 | Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup, Mark Curtis and Ann Perkins proprietors.
(2 bottles) Contents Note: Jeremiah Curtis & Benjamin A. Perkins, Jeremiah moved from Bangor to NYC (1854); George M. Curtis and Jeremiah 48 Fulton St (1856); Principal Office No 13 Cedar St. (1858); J. Curtis Jr. joins (1858); Curtis & Brown (1860-1875) (Wilson), NYC, NY, Advertised 1858-59, First sold 1849. Named for Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow, Jeramiah Curtis' mother-in-law. Contained Morphia sulphate. For teething, sore gums and to regulate the bowel, dysentery. Listed Meyer Bros. & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog. (1879); Pharmaceutical Era (1905): Anglo-American Drug Co. 215 Fulton St. NYC. CDG, Aug. 8, 1859, Mrs. Winslow's // Soothing Syrup // Curtis & Perkins // Proprietors, aqua, 5 1/8, cylinder, rolled Physical Description Note: 5% label |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 3, Bottle 91 | Teething bottle without a label except on the bottom where it says,
T.P.S. and Company, New York -shown upright Contents Note: Figural known as Crying Baby, contents unknown |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 3, Bottle 92 | Miller's Oil the bottle reads, "snake oil an agreeable liniment, price
.50 recommended for the relief of superficial aches and pains due to exposure
or exertion" |
circa 1920-1940 |
| Box 3, Bottle 93 | Dr. Thomas's Eclectic oil, price .60 cents, Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo,
NY for coughs due to colds and common sore throats Contents Note: Screw top 1930-40s. Advertised 1885 Foster-Milburn (Baldwin) Druggist Circular 1912 sold by Foster-Milburn, Buffalo, NY. Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Brook. Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents. |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 3, Bottle 94 | Dr. N.G. Whit's Pulmonary Elixir, coughs colds hoarseness, croup,
pleurisy. Dr. H. Baxter, Highgate, Vermont, price .35 cents Contents Note: Possibly the same as or a competitor of White's Pulmonary Elixir listed in Druggist Circular 1912 owned by Henry, Johnson and Lord Co. 121 College St. Burlington, VT. They acquired many brands from smaller proprietors. Physical Description Note: 90% label. |
circa 1880-1890 |
| Box 3, Bottle 95 | Dr. Porter New York Contents Note: DR. PORTER'S CURATIVE BALSAM, Hall & Ruckel proprietors, 218 Greenwich, NYC (1856). Testimonials to 1838, Known as Madam Zadoc Porter's Curative Balsam, NY. Listed Druggist Circular (1913) as Porter's Cough Balsam, in two sizes, Halt & Ruckel, 215 Washington St., NYC. (Odell 2000) Dr. Porter / New York, aqua, 4 7/8, rectangular, rolled. (Greer) |
circa 1850 |
| Box 3, Bottle 96 | Opodeldoc (on back of the bottle, liquid) Contents Note: LIQUID OPODELDOC. A generic bottle used by many companies. One is labeled B.A. Fahnestock's, Pittsburgh (Odell 2000) |
circa 1830-1855 |
| Box 3, Bottle 97 | Dr. Hayne's Arabian Balsam, E. Morgan & Son, Providence, Rhode
Island Contents Note: See Miller's. This is the same product except an earlier variant. |
circa 1880s |
| Box 3, Bottle 98 | Dr. King's New Discovery Contents Note: "In the country and small city newspapers there is now being advertised lavishly "Dr. King's New discovery for Consumption." It is proclaimed to be the "only sure cure for consumption." Further announcement is made that "it strikes terror to the doctors." as it is a morphine and chloroform mixture, "Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption is well calculated to strike terror to the doctors or to any other class or profession, except, perhaps, the undertakers. It is a pretty diabolical concoction to give anyone, and particularly to a consumptive. The chloroform temporarily allays the cough, thereby checking Nature's effort to throw off the dead matter from the lungs. The opium drugs the patient into a deceived cheerfulness. the combination is admirably designed to shorten the life of any consumptive who takes it steadily." Great American Fraud (1905) Physical Description Note: Sample size bottle. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Box 3, Bottle 99 | A. D. Ashley's Red Sea Balsam, New Bedford, Massachusetts Contents Note: A. Davis Ashley was a carriage making who bottle the Red Sea Balsam in the upper floors of the Arcade Bldg in New Bedford MA in the early 1870s. His son Clifford W. Ashley was an artist who did work for Harper's Weekly, (Blasi). Bottle is known with tooled lip and ABM (automatic bottle machine). Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1880-1910 |
| Box 3, Bottle 100 | Sample bottle of Dr. Kilmers Swamp Root kidney cure, Binghamton, New
York Physical Description Note: No label, stain. |
circa 1890-1905 |
| Box 3, Bottle 101 | "cupping" suction cup Contents Note: Unknown |
| Box 3, Bottle 102 | M. L. Wertherell Druggist and Chemist, Gloucester,
Massachusetts Contents Note: Local druggist prescription bottle. Physical Description Note: No label, chipped lip. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 103 | Atwood's jaundice Bitters, formally made by Moses Atwood, Georgetown,
MA Physical Description Note: Appears ABM, no label |
circa 1915-1925 |
| Binder 1, Slide 104 | Vegetable Pain Killer ("vegetable" on one side, "pain killer" on the
other (Three bottles-two shown) Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 105 | Humphreys Marvel of Healing Contents Note: Frederick Humphrey's witch hazel oil 1878 trademarked, NY Physical Description Note: No labels, one stained |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 106 | Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup (but it is entitled, Anglo American Drug
Company, successor to Curtis and Perkins proprietors Physical Description Note: No labels, one stained. |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 107 | A dose measuring bottle, Measuring Appliance Company, Providence, Rhode
Island Physical Description Note: No label. |
1890-1900 |
| Box 3, Bottle 108 | Dr. S. Pitcher's Castoria Contents Note: "Some thirty years ago (About 1879) one Dr. Samuel Pitcher patented a formula for the preparation of a syrup of senna with aromatics obtained by extracting senna with hot water containing a little sodium bicarbonate. This preparation was sold under the copyright named 'Castoria.' since then the patent for this preparation has expired and the preparation as well as the name have become public property....such a preparation is official in the U.S. Pharmacopeia as Syrupus Sennae." From the Journal A.M.A. January 4, 1909. Physical Description Note: No label. |
| Binder 1, Slide 109 | Three Crow Pine and Elm Brand Cough Syrup, contains 11% alcohol, made
by the Atlantic Spice Company, Rockland, Maine Contents Note: 99% label contains not over 11% alcohol. It is produced by the Atlantic Spice Co., Rockland Maine. The name at the top of the bottle is three Crow showing Trademark and a picture of three crows. Physical Description Note: Excellent condition with nice graphic on label. |
| Box Unknown container 2081 for instance of Hood's Tooth Powder, a preserver and beautifier for the teeth prepared only by C.1. Hood and Company Apothecary, Lowell Massachusetts, Bottle 110 | Hood's Tooth Powder, a preserver and beautifier for the teeth prepared
only by C.1. Hood and Company Apothecary, Lowell Massachusetts Contents Note: Same company as Hood's Sarsaparilla. Physical Description Note: 100% tablets, stopper and contents. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Box 4, Bottle 111 | Mosso's Oil-O-Sol Contents Note: Screw top C.A. Mosso Company, Chicago, IL Physical Description Note: Box, label and contents. |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 4, Bottle 112 | Dr. Hand's stringent mixture, Hand Medicine Co., Philadelphia, PA,
successor to D.D. Hand, MD Contents Note: Dr. D.B. Hand was from Scranton, PA advertised 1860s-1948. Bottles were all the same with different labels for his Pleasant Physic, a cough and croup remedy, a colic cure (ad: 1889) a diarrhoea mixture(ad:1896), a general tonic, a teething lotion and a worm elixir (1889). Physical Description Note: unknown |
| Box 4, Bottle 113 | A hair tonic out of Boston, Massachusetts "Ruggier's
Brillantine" Contents Note: Name Brilliantine was used by dozens of companies (1916 Druggist Circular). Physical Description Note: appears ABM, label in poor condition |
| Box 4, Bottle 114 | Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic for relieve of malaria and resulting
chills and fever, Grove Laboratory, Inc., St. Louis Missouri Contents Note: Ad: Oct. 1899 Daily Picayune, New Orleans Physical Description Note: Label and contents. |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 4, Bottle 115 | Tuttle's elixir, Company Boston, Massachusetts Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 4, Bottle 116 | Healey and Bigelow Kickapoo Indian Oil Physical Description Note: No label, some haze |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 4, Bottle 117 | Pulmonine, as sure cure for colds, cough and lung troubles, made by
Cushing Medical Supply Co., Clinton, Massachusetts Contents Note: Listed in 1912 Druggist Circular W. Cushing & Co Foxcroft, ME Physical Description Note: Label badly stained |
circa 1912 |
| Box 4, Bottle 118 | King's Juniper Tar Cough Balsam, George W. Morrison, Co. Clinton,
Massachusetts Contents Note: 1916 Druggist Circular lists a Juniper Tar Cough Balsam manufactured By Warner Co. Denver, Co. Physical Description Note: No label |
1890-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 119 | S. A. Tuttle, Boston, Massachusetts Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1910-1920 |
| Box 4, Bottle 120 | J. L. Mathieu's cough syrup, Marlboro, Massachusetts, formally syrup of
tar and cold liver oil Physical Description Note: No label |
1914-1920 |
| Box 4, Bottle 121 | Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, Philadelphia Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1870-1880 |
| Box 4, Bottle 122 | Kilmer's Swamp Root, kidney and liver and bladder cure Physical Description Note: No label, small size. |
circa 1880-1906 |
| Box 4, Bottle 123 | A second bottle of Kilmer's Swamp Root, diuretic to kidneys are mild
laxative-- Note: this bottle doesn't claim cure and is a more recent bottle,
clearly made after the pure food and drug act because It has the contains
clearly labeled Physical Description Note: Label and contents. |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 4, Bottle 124 | Another early bottle, The Great Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, kidney, liver
and bladder cure. On the bottom, "specific" Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1880-1906 |
| Binder 1, Slide 125 | Previous three bottles of Kilmer's together |
| Box 4, Bottle 126 | Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1918-1925 |
| Box 4, Bottle 127 | Cooper's New Discover Physical Description Note: No label, ABM |
circa 1900-1916 |
| Box 4, Bottle 128 | Father John's Medicine, Lowell, Massachusetts Contents Note: Carleton & Hovey Co., Lowell, MA. Est. about 1870. Mixture of Cod Live oil for Consumption. Physical Description Note: No label, generic bottle used by many companies |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 4, Bottle 129 | Citrate of Magnesia Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1910-1920 |
| Box 4, Bottle 130 | Dr. King's New Discovery for coughs and colds, Chicago,
Illinois Physical Description Note: No label |
1890-1906 |
| Binder 1, Slide 131 | old bottle from the ocean, "Mexican Mustang Liniment, Lyon
Manufacturing Co., New York" Contents Note: This appears to be exactly the same bottle as #20. The bottle is dug and has heavy stain. See #20 |
| Box 4, Bottle 132 | Hood's Sarsaparilla Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1880-1910 |
| Box 4, Bottle 133 | Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. R.V. Pierce, MD, Buffalo, New
York Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1880-1910 |
| Box 4, Bottle 134 | Dr. Greene's Nervura, the great brain and nerve invigorant and health
restorer, with a long list of cures. Drs. F. E. J. A. Greene, Boston,
Massachusetts, price $1.00. Note — on the bottle it says, none genuine unless
the name of Dr. Greene is blown in th Physical Description Note: 85% label |
circa 1890-1906 |
| Binder 1, Slide 135 | Hood's Sarsaparilla Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1880-1910 |
| Box 4, Bottle 136 | A "guarantee" flask (for whiskey) Physical Description Note: No label |
1890-1914 |
| Binder 1, Slide 137 | Kodol for dyspepsia and indigestion, E.C. Dewitt and Co., Chicago and
New York, USA. Contains 12% pure grain alcohol Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents |
circa 1900 |
| Box 4, Bottle 138 | Dirt-solvent E.E. Clifford and Co., Portland, Maine Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1800-1900 |
| Box 4, Bottle 139 | Child teething bottle with an ivory nipple Contents Note: Early flask or nurses. Appears to be flint glass, pontiled. |
circa 1820-1840 |
| Box 4, Bottle 140 | Howard's Vegetable Cancer and canker syrup |
circa 1850-1860 |
| Binder 1, Slide 141 | Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, Rochester, New York (bottle has a
picture of a safe on it) Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1880-1905 |
| Binder 1, Slide 142 | Bottle of cod liver oil Contents Note: Scott's Emulsion Physical Description Note: No label, stained. |
circa 1880-1910 |
| Binder 1, Slide 143 | Dr. J. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Contents Note: The Bitters reportedly contained 44.3% alcohol (DC 1889). This was later reduced to about 25% after the Food and Drug Act. First advertised 1852 PPCD; Listed in Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888); 1905 Pharmaceutical Era: The Hostetter Co, 59 & 60 Water St, Pitts. PA. CDT, June 9, 1854, Dr. J Hostetter's / Stomach Bitters, black, amber, 10 1/4, rectangular, to, IP, Reported by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Great American Fraud, to contain 21% alcohol (1905). Physical Description Note: No label, some inside stain. |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 5, Bottle 144 | "Pink pills for Pale People", in glass for export. Note clever
placement or letter P Contents Note: Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY introduced 1865. Listed past 1917. (Fike) |
| Box 5, Bottle 145 | Rochester's Germicide Co Contents Note: It began in 1888, when two men, Daniel N. Calkins and Clarence P. Crowell, purchased the Rochester New York Agency of the Aromatic Disinfecting Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a company that supplied equipment and disinfecting fluid for restrooms. Under the new company name of Rochester Germicide Company, improvements in the system were made and expansion into manufacturing other products began. By 1907, Rochester Germicide had opened sales offices in Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland and was manufacturing and selling handle soaps, floor cleaners, disinfectants, and insecticides." (htpp://www.rochestermidland.com/aboutrmc/history/default.htm) |
circa 1890-1915 |
| Box 5, Bottle 146 | Glover's Imperial Medicine Contents Note: H. Clay Glover Company. This product was a mange medicine for animals. Physical Description Note: No label, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 5, Bottle 147 | Hood's Pharmacy Contents Note: Hood's Pharmacy, Turner Falls Mass |
circa 1900 |
| Box 5, Bottle 148 | Foss Liquid Fruit Flowers |
1900-1920 |
| Box 5, Bottle 149 | Methyl Purple |
late 20th century |
| Box 5, Bottle 150 | Stieaux's Pill |
1890-1910 |
| Box 5, Bottle 151 | Hamlin's Wizard Oil Contents Note: John A. Hamlin, Cincinnati, OH, Advertised 1859, Purchased the brand from Dr. C. M. Townsend, of Lima OH (Wilson) Listed Cincinnati one year then moved to Chicago where he grew the brand into the huge seller. His son, Lysander joined him the 1870s. Listed in Meyer Bros. & Co, Wholesale Druggist Catalog, (1879); Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog in 2 sizes (1888); Pharmaceutical Era (1905), Hamlin's Wizard Oil Co., 63 Market St. Chicago, IL. Hamlin's / Wizard / Oil // Cincinnati / Ohio, aqua, 3 7/8, oval; same except, 4, Chicago, IL Physical Description Note: Box and contents |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 5, Bottle 152 | Maltine Contents Note: John Camrick introduced this brand in 1875. He established the Maltine Manufacturing Company in 1878. He produced 14 different Maltines. In the 1890s he sold the business. It continued in business under various managements until it became part of the Warner Lambert Company in 1952. After the Food and Drug Act of 1906 it was advertised as a stimulating expectorant. Physical Description Note: Label badly deteriorated. |
circa 1890-1900 |
| Binder 1, Slide 153 | Boericke and Tafel's Homeopathic Family Medicine Case Contents Note: Boericke & Tafel established by Francis E. Boericke and Adolph J. Tafel NY directories listed firm from 1872-1930, Philadelphia listed 1873-1948, Portland, OR 1903-1906, San Francisco 1870-1886, the San Francisco firm was listed as successors to Boericke and Tafel. (Fike) 1912 & 1916 Boericke & Runyon (1891-1956) Homeopathic Pharmacists, 14 W. 38th St. NY. Moved Again in 1917 to 200 Sixth Ave. (Druggist Circular) |
circa 1870-1890 |
| Box 5, Bottle 154 | Dr. Vanduzer |
| Box 5, Bottle 155 | Robert Gibson's Tablets Contents Note: Listed as Gibson's Lime Fruit Tablets in 1 and 5 gallon jars. 1912 Druggist Circular. Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1900 |
| Box 5, Bottle 156 | Paine's Celery Compound Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, Wells & Richardson, Burlington, VT, Reported by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Great American Fraud, to contain 21% alcohol (1905) Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1880-1910 |
| Box 5, Bottle 156a | Old Sachem Bitters Contents Note: Wm. Goodrich, proprietor, George Hunnewell, agent, principal depot, 145 Water St, NYC, NY, Advertised 1859, For loss of appetite, constipation other derangements of the stomach. HW, Oct. 15, 1859, Old Sachem / Bitters / and / Wigwam Tonic, aqua, 10 1/2 or amber, 9 5/16, figural barrel, sc. Physical Description Note: Assuming color is amber any other color price would be higher. |
circa 1860-1870 |
| Box 5, Bottle 157 | Renne's Magic Oil Contents Note: Advertised 1884, Listed 1912 Druggist Circular. Dr. Herrick's Family Medicine Co., 50 N. Second St. St. Louis, MO. This medicine company owned by James T. Ballard of St. Louis. Physical Description Note: 65% label |
circa 1890 |
| Box 5, Bottle 158 | Frank's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure Contents Note: This bottle is a reproduction. The bottom marked Wheaton indicates it was blown in Wheaton, NJ sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The bottle is known in at least four colors amber, amethyst, blue and green. This bottle is one of the six in the American Antique Bottle Decanter reproductions. Actually no such bottle ever existed the fantasy bottle design was based on a Warner's Safe Cure bottle. |
circa 1970s |
| Box 5, Bottle 159 | Dr. Pierce's Prescription |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 160 | Mrs. E. Kidder Dysentery Contents Note: Prepared under the immediate inspection of Mrs. E. Kidder, 100 Court (1846-1858), Boston, MA, Advertised 1837-1852, Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, diarrhoea, teething children, vomiting, sea sickness. The labels on the bottles are signed by her own hand. Listed in Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, Mrs. Kidder's Cordial (1888) CE, July 3, 1852, Mrs. E. Kidder's // Dysentery // Cordial // Boston, aqua, 6, cylinder, tc; Mrs. E. Kidder's // Dysentery // Cordial // Boston, olive green or aqua, 8, cylinder, tc; also 7 15/16, emerald green, dtc; Mrs. E. Kidder's / Dysentery / Cordial / Boston, aqua, 3 ¾ dtc, IP Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1850-1860 |
| Box 6, Bottle 161 | Dr. Cox's Barbed Wire Liniment and Antiseptic Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, hoover Liniment Co. Carlisle Physical Description Note: Box and contents |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 162 | Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, Hoover Liniment Co. Carlisle Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 163 | Brown's Sarsaparilla Contents Note: Ad: 1884, almanac printed 1887 - "Prepared by Ara Warren, Druggist, Bangor, Me. From a prescription of Dr. Wm. H. Brown, the originator of it. Dr. Brown was a well known Physician in Maine and New England, and ex-mayor of Bangor. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, 1842, and Harvard Medical School, 1850." (Shimko) Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, Ara Warren, Hammond & Central, Bangor, ME Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1880-1900 |
| Box 6, Bottle 164 | Tablespoons Contents Note: Color appears to be cornflower blue in the photo. If so value might be closer to $20. Physical Description Note: Possibly English |
circa 1900 |
| Box 6, Bottle 165 | Tuberculozyne Contents Note: It began in 1888, when two men, Daniel N. Calkins and Clarence P. Crowell, purchased the Rochester New York Agency of the Aromatic Disinfecting Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a company that supplied equipment and disinfecting fluid for restrooms. Under the new company name of Rochester Germicide Company, improvements in the system were made and expansion into manufacturing other products began. By 1907, Rochester Germicide had opened sales offices in Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland and was manufacturing and selling handle soaps, floor cleaners, disinfectants, and insecticides." (http://www.rochestermidland.com/aboutrmc/history/default.htm) Physical Description Note: 95% label. Lip badly damaged. |
circa 1900-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 166 | William's Eye Water Contents Note: Generic bottle and probably put up by a local physician. Product is not listed anywhere. Physical Description Note: 95% label. |
circa 1900 |
| Box 6, Bottle 167 | Poison Tinct Iodine Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1915-1930 |
| Binder 1, Slide 168 | Hamilton's Old English Formula: Black Oil Compound Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, Kimball Bros. & Co. Enosburg Falls, VT Physical Description Note: Label and contents. |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 6, Bottle 169 | Hamlin's Wizard Oil Physical Description Note: Badly stained. |
circa 1890 |
| Box 6, Bottle 170 | 1000 Series (2 bottles) Contents Note: Generic bottle. Physical Description Note: Labels in extremely poor condition. |
circa 1900-1915 |
| Box 6, Bottle 171 | Elmer's Celebrated Vegetable Plaster Contents Note: Pill vial. Physical Description Note: Label and content. |
circa 1900-1920 |
| Binder 1, Slide 172 | Peppermint Contents Note: Generic oil bottle. Physical Description Note: Label, neck seal and contents. |
circa 1900 |
| Box 6, Bottle 173 | Ely's Cream Balm Contents Note: Ad: 1898 "For catarrh, hay fever cold in head, fifty cents, samples ten cents by mail, Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., New York City. Physical Description Note: photo missing |
| Box 6, Bottle 174 | Cushing Company Process Contents Note: Container for Pulmonine. Physical Description Note: No label |
circa 1900+ |
| Box 6, Bottle 175 | Bromo-Seltzer Contents Note: From The Journal A.M.A. Sept. 29, 1906, 2158. 100 Parts of Effervescing salts contain: Potassium bromide 10.53 parts, Acetanilid 4.58 parts, caffeine 1.2 parts... Since half an ounce of this preparation is often taken at a dose, and since many, especially women are taking daily, it is anything but "harmless." Three cases of poisoning are reported in the report including, "Dr. W.J. Robinson, New York reported a case of impotence following the excessive use of this nostrum." Physical Description Note: No label, generic bottle used by many companies. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 176 | Denton's Famous Salve Contents Note: The salve was a product of the Denton medicine Co., Nashville, TN. Still offered for sale in 1935 by the Denton Medicine Co. of St. Louis. Physical Description Note: Label and tin. |
circa 1920 |
| Box 6, Bottle 177 | D.B. Griffin Chemist, Wakefield, RI Contents Note: Generic bottle. Physical Description Note: No label. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 178 | Schenck's Mandrake-Liver Pills Contents Note: Prepared by J. H. Schenck, Laboratory at S.E. corner of Coats and Marshall Streets: (1849); 39 N. 6th St. (1853-1857); prepared only at his laboratory at Schenck's Railroad Station, Neshaminy Bridge, Bucks Co. PA (1854), Philadelphia, PA, Advertised 1850-1855. For coughs and consumption, this was probably his first product listed at 89 N. 6th St. Phila in 1858. He also sold Schenck's Mandrake Pills for liver complaint. Dr. J.A. Schenck, the father of the proprietor was said to have suffered from pulmonary trouble. A change of climate and occupation gave him no relief and he had long given up on physicians. Upon the suggestion of an old friend of the family, he tried an old fashioned remedy. Within a year he was again healthy and he commenced the manufacture of the remedy. He moved from Flemington, N.J. to Philadelphia. He began with a single room and a few simple appliances. After several moves, he located at the NE corner of Sixth and Arch Streets, where the business was eventually carried on by his son J.H. Schenck. The Pulmonic Syrup was the original product with the Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake Pills added later. Listed Meyer Bros. & Co. Physical Description Note: 95% label and wood pill box. English. |
circa 1850-1870 |
| Box 6, Bottle 179 | Tyalid Contents Note: Product of G. W. Camrick, Newark, NJ. 1935 American Druggist Price book. Company in New York in 1912 (Druggist Circular). Sold in bottles of 100, 500 and 1,000. Physical Description Note: Label in fair condition, bottle appears ABM. |
circa 1912-1920 |
| Box 6, Bottle 180 | Ammonium Contents Note: Product of Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 181 | Casara Comp. Contents Note: Product of Charles Kilgore. New York listed 1935 American Druggist. Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1920-1935 |
| Box 6, Bottle 182 | Fluid Lavender Compound: Alcohol 63% Physical Description Note: 100% percent label. |
1900-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 183 | Diaslase of Mall Contents Note: Lenh & Fink Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents. |
circa 1925-1935 |
| Box 6, Bottle 184 | Fluid Extra Senna/John and Wyeth Brother Philadelphia Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 185 | Rheumalgine: Eli Lilly Contents Note: This preparation was sold in pints, and gallons as well as in table form. Put up by Eli Lilly (1935 American Druggist Price Book) Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
1915-1930 |
| Box 6, Bottle 186 | Rhubarb and Soda Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label, Bottle is ABM |
circa 1915-1930 |
| Box 6, Bottle 187 | Powdered Phenalgin Acetanilide Physical Description Note: 100% label, screw cap |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 6, Bottle 188 | Valerian Extracts Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 189 | Asafelida Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 190 | Colchicine with Methyl Salicylate Contents Note: H.K. Mulford Physical Description Note: 100% label screw cap |
circa 1920-1940 |
| Box 6, Bottle 191 | Sedative: Baer Contents Note: Eli Lilly Physical Description Note: 100% with staining. |
circa 1915-1930 |
| Box 6, Bottle 192 | Caffeine Citrata: E.R. Squibb and Sons Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 193 | Novaspirin/Winthrop Chemical Co. Contents Note: Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Book Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1920-1940 |
| Box 6, Bottle 194 | Spleen Desiccated/ Armour Company Contents Note: Armour specialized in these offering a wide range of powders, capsules and tablets of kidney, brain, ovarian, pituitary, liver, bone marrow, and others. Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1890-1915 |
| Box 6, Bottle 195 | Thyroid Glands Desiccated/ Lilly and Company Contents Note: Listed 1916 Druggist Circular. Eighty cents per bottle. Physical Description Note: 95% label stained. |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 6, Bottle 196 | Parke Davis, Calcium Sulphide Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 6, Bottle 197 | Sodium Benzoate Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 6, Bottle 198 | Sodium Bromide Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 199 | 5% Thyroid Nucleo-Protein Tablets Contents Note: Zelein Company New York Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 200 | Corpora Lutea Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 201 | Creosote Physical Description Note: Partial label. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 202 | Pheno Barbidon Physical Description Note: 100% label stained. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 203 | Calomel and Sodium Bicarbonate Physical Description Note: 100% label. |
circa 1890-1915 |
| Box 6, Bottle 204 | Mixed Treatment /Potassium, Syrup Ferrons Iodide Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label contents and cork wrapper. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 6, Bottle 205 | Blue Mass/ Sharpe and Dohme / Baltimore Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 6, Bottle 206 | Phenacetin Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 6, Bottle 207 | Kemozane Antiseptic Contents Note: Non Poisonous Kemozone Tablets The Super-Healing Antiseptic for external and internal use, Sterling Chemical Corp, New York, U.S.A. Physical Description Note: 100% label, screw cap |
circa 1920-1940 |
| Box 7, Bottle 208 | Digitulis Purpurea Contents Note: Photo missing. |
| Box 7, Bottle 209 | Calomelg%4o. 354 Contents Note: Photo missing. |
| Box 7, Bottle 210 | Calomel / No. 34 Contents Note: Photo missing. |
| Box 7, Bottle 211 | Thigenol Roche Physical Description Note: 98% label and contents. |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 212 | Sal-Ethyl Carbonate with Amidopyrine Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 213 | Salacin Contents Note: Lilly Physical Description Note: label stained |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 214 | Phenol-phtalen Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 99% label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 215 | Corpora Lutea Duplicates Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 216 | Bismuth Subnitrate Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 217 | Ox Gall. U.S.P. "Medicamela Vera" Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label, screw cap |
circa 1930-1940 |
| Box 7, Bottle 218 | Asafedita No. 83 Contents Note: Lilly Physical Description Note: 100% label stained |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 219 | Dinner (Lady Webster) / Aloe, Mastic, Red Rose Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 220 | Pituitary Tablets Contents Note: Lilly Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 221 | Ichthyol No. 867 Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1890-1915 |
| Box 7, Bottle 222 | Coryza Kenyon without Morphine Contents Note: Lilly Physical Description Note: 100% label and neck label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 223 | Hematic Tonic Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 224 | Cascara Comp. Tablets/ A Tonic Laxative Contents Note: Kilgore's Physical Description Note: 100% label partial box, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 225 | Rhinitis Contents Note: Upjohn Physical Description Note: 100% label and box (damaged), ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 226 | Blue Mas / 5 Grains Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 227 | Abasin / Winthrop Company Physical Description Note: label and box, ABM |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 228 | Aloin Strychnine Belladona and Cascara No. 1 Contents Note: Lilly Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 229 | Tonic (Aiken) Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme Physical Description Note: 100% label stained |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 230 | Blaud 3 Grains Contents Note: Parke Davis Physical Description Note: 100% label stained |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 231 | Cascara Sagiada Contents Note: Wyeth & Co. Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 232 | Cactus Compound (Poison) Contents Note: Cactus Compound (Poison) Physical Description Note: 100% label box |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 233 | Triturates / Heart Stimulant/ No. 1 Physical Description Note: 100% label stained |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 234 | Three Iodides/ No. 153 Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 235 | Anabolin Physical Description Note: 100% label and box |
circa 1920-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 236 | Digipuratum Poison Physical Description Note: 100% label and box |
circa 1910-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 237 | PanCrobilin Pills Physical Description Note: 100% label stained |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 238 | Calomel Sodium Bicarbonate No. 649 Physical Description Note: 100% label stained |
circa 1890-1910 |
| Box 7, Bottle 239 | Calomel No. 35 Contents Note: Two bottles. Physical Description Note: 100% labels one stained |
circa 1910-1920 |
| Box 7, Bottle 240 | Phosferine 4.5 Alcohol |
| Box 7, Bottle 241 | Bismuth Duplicate Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme Physical Description Note: 100% label |
circa 1910-1930 |
| Box 7, Bottle 242 | Phenolphthalein Physical Description Note: 100% label some stain |
circa 1910-1930 |
Series 3. Objects
| Container | Description | Date |
| Box 7, Object A1 | Dr Hales tin with tax stamp Physical Description Note: Paint in poor condition. |
| Box 7, Object A2 | C. I Grizwold's Family Salve or plaster Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular. Sisson Drug Co. Main St. Hartford, CT |
| Box 7, Object A3 | Dr. Hobson's dermazema soap, a splendid shampoo |
| Box 7, Object A4 | Lady Line Antiseptic Suppositories. Local treatment for the cure of
inflammation. (advertisement mounted on a wooden plaque) |
| Box 7, Object A5 | Thermometer |
| Box 7, Object A6 | Dr. King's Star Crown Pennroyal Pills Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular... maker not listed |
| Binder 1, Slide A7 | Old medicine bottle case with three bottles |
| Binder 1, Slide A8 | Laudanum labels |
| Binder 1, Slide A9 | Herbal Catalog cover |
| Box 7, Object A10 | Apothecaries Weight Physical Description Note: set incomplete |
| Box 7, Object A11 | Weights-Wood Box Physical Description Note: set incomplete |