Collection Highlights
Common Sense
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.Y1776.Paine.com
Medium:
Pamphlet, paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Medicine bottle
Object Number:
Z.526
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Glass, paper, wax
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 7/8 in. ( 14 x 2.2 cm )
Marks:
printed: on label affixed to bottle: "DR. CARTER'S/COMPOUND PULMONARY/BALSAM."
Description:
Colorless nonlead glass medicine bottle blown in a mold with tooled lip, cylindrical neck, sloped down shoulder, long circular body, and pontil mark on base; pasted to bottle, paper label printed in black with inscription reading "DR. CARTER'S COMPOUND PULMONARY BALSAM."; bottle heavily discolored with dark brown residue; red sealing wax in mouth of bottle.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
