pharmaceutical bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact1306
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.35.43
- Description
- The item is a bulk product stocked by a pharmacy. Up until the 1950s, pharmacists provided most prescription medications by creating compounds of bulk products that were given to customers as pills, salves, or tonics. Cobalt glass bottle, rounded base, with metal screw cap. The bottle contains a trace amount of powder. Discoloured, rectangular paper label, commercially printed, is attached to the front of the object, with black text.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Capitol Hill Pharmacy in Burnaby.
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- "Alumen Exsiccatun." printed in black with thin rectangle enclosing the text.
- Names
- Capitol Hill Pharmacy
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Capitol Hill Area