Bottle, Medicine

Object number
92.44.7
Creator
Hazard, Hazard & Co.
Date
1888 – 1893
Description
Four sided clear glass medicine bottle, ground glass stopper. Contents: brown liquid, faded handwritten prescription for a "C........ Include laudanum, rhubarb." Bottle marked with "Hazard, Hazard & Co., /Family Chemists/5th Ave at 24th St., NY;/212 Thames St. Newport/6th Avenue At 39th St NY" label describes ingredients and dosage.

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
Subjects
Hazard, Hazard and Company
Related People & Organizations
Squires, Abiram F., Dr. (associated)
Peckham, Melville B. (associated)
Peckham, Warren (associated)