Bottle, Medicine

Object number
92.44.6
Creator
Frank Brown s Drug amp Chemical Store
Date
1888 – 1893
Description
Four sided clear glass medicine bottle, ground glass stopper. Contents (dried up): "Brown's essence of Jamaica ginger prepared only at Brown's Drug and Chemical Store, Near Chestnut & 5th Philadelphia".

Complete medicine case includes #92.44.1 through #92.44.34. Medicine case belonged to Dr. Abirim F. Squires, born Buffalo, NY, 1846, educated at Harvard Medical College. Settled in Newport, 1873, on staff, Newport Hospital, active in community until his death Oct 10, 1925.
Credit Line
Gift of either Melville B. Peckham or Warren Peckham
Related People & Organizations
Squires, Abiram F., Dr. (associated)
Peckham, Melville B. (associated)
Peckham, Warren (associated)