Collection Highlights
The Peale Family
Date:
1773-1809
Object Number:
1867.298
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bottle/ medicine
Object Number:
2002.1.2470
Date:
1880-1906
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
5 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description:
This cylindrical pale aqua glass bottle has a hand finished cork top and is embossed around the bottle "Mrs. Winslow's/ Soothing Syrup/ The Anglo- American Drug Co./ Successors To/ Curtis and Perkins/ Proprietors". This patent teething medicine contained opiates, laudanum or morphine, which was notable for poisoning and addicting infants before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
