Object Details
- maker
- McKesson and Robbins
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- A nutritious tonic
- This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sidney Glaser
- date made
- ca 1960
- ID Number
- 1985.0481.188
- accession number
- 1985.0481
- catalog number
- 1985.0481.188
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Object Type
- Nutritional Products
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- metal (container material)
- paper (container material)
- beef extract (drug active ingredients)
- green ferric ammonium citrate (drug active ingredients)
- ethyl alcohol, 19% (drug active ingredients)
- sherry wine (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in; 19.05 cm x 6.6675 cm x 6.6675 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e4af-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
nmah_213916
NMAH
BEEF, IRON & WINE
National Museum of American History
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- Record ID
- nmah_213916