Antique Medicine Bottles
Scope and Contents
These twelve antique, glass bottles were found in a county building and brought to the Archives by Todd Davis, Greene County Services’ employee.
Most of the bottles appear to have been used to hold a variety of medicinal remedies and are believed to have once been used at the Old County Infirmary.
Medicinal companies include:
• Lavoris
• Charles H. Fletcher’s Castoria
• Heberling
Glass companies include:
• Whitall Tatum Company, Millville, New Jersey;
• W.H. Hamilton and Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
• Turner Brothers Company, Terre Haute, Indiana;
• Owens-Illinois Glass Company
Dates
- Creation: 1893 - 1950
Creator
- Greene County Records Center & Archives (Creator, Organization)
Extent
12 Linear Feet (12 bottles total.)
Language of Materials
English
Source
- County Services (Creator, Organization)
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Greene County Records Center & Archives Repository