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- Oak Orchard Acid Springs Water Bottle, 1850-1870 - People have explored the health benefits of spring water for thousands of years. Natural springs became travel destinations and the restorative waters were touted as cures for everyday ill. As interest in these waters' potential curative powers grew in the nineteenth-century, entrepreneurs captured the perceived health-giving liquid in affordable glass bottles and sold it to consumers both near and far.
- 1850-1870
- Collections - Artifact
Oak Orchard Acid Springs Water Bottle, 1850-1870
People have explored the health benefits of spring water for thousands of years. Natural springs became travel destinations and the restorative waters were touted as cures for everyday ill. As interest in these waters' potential curative powers grew in the nineteenth-century, entrepreneurs captured the perceived health-giving liquid in affordable glass bottles and sold it to consumers both near and far.
- Medicine Bottle, 1843-1855 - Dr. George Merchant founded the Merchant's Gargling Oil Company in 1833 in Lockport, New York. The company claimed the liniment (not really for "gargling") eased a variety of aches and pains common to "man and beast"--it bottled one version for humans and another for animals.
- 1843-1855
- Collections - Artifact
Medicine Bottle, 1843-1855
Dr. George Merchant founded the Merchant's Gargling Oil Company in 1833 in Lockport, New York. The company claimed the liniment (not really for "gargling") eased a variety of aches and pains common to "man and beast"--it bottled one version for humans and another for animals.
- Pitcher, 1840-1860 - American glass factories made a variety of glass products for the early-nineteenth-century consumer. Glassblowers turned out bottles, flasks, tableware and other household items. Earlier products were affordable only to the well-to-do. But by the second quarter of the 19th century, a growing number of manufacturers made reasonably priced blown-glass items available to the expanding middle class.
- 1840-1860
- Collections - Artifact
Pitcher, 1840-1860
American glass factories made a variety of glass products for the early-nineteenth-century consumer. Glassblowers turned out bottles, flasks, tableware and other household items. Earlier products were affordable only to the well-to-do. But by the second quarter of the 19th century, a growing number of manufacturers made reasonably priced blown-glass items available to the expanding middle class.