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Type of Object
Bottle, drug
Place of Manufacture
Fredericksburg (Va.)
Date of Manufacture
1880-1920
Physical Details
Labeled glass bottle with heavy glass stopper. Capacity is approximately 1 1/2 pint. Bottle is cylindrical, machine-blown, and has a thick glass lip. Label is brown and, in handwriting, reads "Powd. Snake Root," and "ack." Is printed "W. L. Bond, Drugs and Seeds Fredericksburg, Va."
Dimensions
21 cm. x 8 cm. x 8 cm.
Medical Subject
Drug Packaging
Accession Number
1982.757
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Powdered Snake Root Bottle, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00118.jpg