Bottle

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Object Details

maker: H. H. Warner and Company

Description: Amber glass bottle with embossed inscription that reads "WARNER'S / SAFE / KIDNEY & LIVER / CURE / ROCHESTER N.Y." Hulbert Harrington Warner (1842-1923), a businessman who manufactured fire- and burglar-proof safes, purchased a medicinal formula from Charles Craig, a local doctor, and created a multi-million-dollar patent medicine business. Warner also endowed an astronomical observatory.
Location: Currently not on view

Date made: c. 1910

ID Number: MG.65.2077
accession number: 256516
catalog number: 65.2077

Object Name: Bottle, OTC Preparation; otc preparation
Other Terms: Bottle; Bottle, OTC Preparation; Containers

Physical Description: brown (overall color); glass, ?, transparent (overall material); amber (overall popular color name); narrow mouth (overall shape); oval (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 9 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 7/8 in; 24.765 cm x 9.525 cm x 4.7625 cm

place made: United States: New York, Rochester

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine; Balm of America

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Nerve & Brain Drugs; Psychiatric Drug

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BOTTLE

National Museum of American History

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