pharmaceutical bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact16431
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV982.13.139
- 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. Amber glass bottle, rounded base, with a cork stopper. The bottle is 1/3 fill of powder. Discoloured, rectangular paper label is attached to the front, commercially printed, with black text and handwritten text.
- Object History
- This item originates from the McDowell Pharmacy in North Vancouver
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- "ANTIKAMNIA SUB." handwritten in black ink at top of label. "M.S. McDOWELL / Chemist and Druggist / Cor. 1st and Lonsdale North Vancouver, B.C. / Phone 9" printed in black below. Small floral (?) design printed to the left of the text. Red check mark hand drawn at centre of label.