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Bags, Medical Saddle

Brown leather saddle bags used by Dr. O.D. Slaughter, who moved from Little Rock to the Oxford Bend near Habberton, Arkansas, around 1865 and practiced medicine there until the late 1880s. The bags contain seven bottles used to carry medicine.

The…

Bottle, Apothecary

Label is partially cracked off. V.Iris R. remains. Wide mouth apothecary glass jar, scalloped glass stopper. Ground glass on interior of jar neck and base of stopper. Lable panel with printed glass label. 1 1/4 of label broken off. Capacity 500 ml.

Bottle, Apothecary

Narrow mouth standard chemical storage jar. Glass stopper. Ground glass on interior of jar neck and base of stopper. No label. Residue present. 1 L.

Bottle, Apothecary (Bismuth Subnitrate)

Label: Bismuth Subnitrate.
Standard chemical storage jar with large mouth. Glass stopper with ground glass at base. Ground glass also on interior of neck of jar. Handwritten gummed label. 150 mL cap.

Bottle, Empty

Pressed mold, transparent colorless-denitrified, base is pharmaceutical (?) slightly indented, body is pharmaceutical, shoulders are fluted, neck is long and cylindrical, lip is a short cylinder with rounded ring.

Closure is made for a stopper…

Bottle, Empty

Pressed mold, transparent colorless with denitrification, base is oval and indented, body is pharmaceutical, shoulders are sloping, neck is cylindrical, lip is a mong cylindrical with rounded ring.

Closure is made for a stopper which is absent.…

Bottle, Laundry (Mrs. Stewart's Bluing)

Pressed molded, transparent colorless, base is oval and slightly indented, body is oval, shoulders are sloping, neck is long and cylindrical, lip is banded. The stopper closure is absent. It has mold marks and an impressed batch mark: "7…

Bottle, Medicine

Bottle: (1) Empty, glass, blown bottle. Transparent, teal blue with round, indented base; octagonal body has one panel; domed/round shoulders; cylindrical neck; short, cylindrical lip/collar. Impressed label reads, "Rumford Chemical Works."

Bottle, Medicine

Bottle: (1) empty, glass, blown bottle. Colorless, transparent with oval (slightly indented) base, "punkin seed" shaped body, domed/rounded shoulders, cylindrical neck, double, rounded ring lip/collar (stopper missing).

Bottle, Medicine

JNO Sullivan Bottle: (1) empty, glass, pressed bottle. White, opaque with flat, chamfered, rectangular base; beveled, rectangular body; square shoulders; cylindrical neck; cylindrical, short lip/collar (stopper missing).