Jar, Food Storage

Object number
92.44.18
Creator
Mason, Bullock & Crenshaw
Date
1888 – 1893
Description
Pale green mason jar, glass cap, metal ring. paper label. Contents: frankense (sic), amber colored granules. Bottle marked with embossed logo on top and side "Trade Mark/Mason's Improved/Registered May 23, 1871". "Bullock & Crenshaw/Chemists & Druggists/No. 528 Arch St. 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)