pharmaceutical bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact22510
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV976.144.20
- Description
- The item is a bulk product stocked by a pharmacy. Clear glass bottle, rounded-rectangular base, with metal screw cap. The bottle is 3/4 full of clear, yellow liquid. Some darker residue noted near the neck of the bottle. There is no label attached.
- Object History
- From Wille's Bakery, established in Victoria in 1887 and operating until the 1970's
- 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.
- Wile's Bakery
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Geographic Access
- Victoria
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