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These seven bottles were recovered during excavations in 2014 of the Adair cabin site, home of Reverend Samuel and Florella Brown Adair and their family, in Osawatomie, Kansas. Osawatomie and the Adairs were much involved with the abolitionist movement during the "Bleeding Kansas" years. All of the bottles were once closed with corks and all have a medicinal or pharmaceutical type finish. The brown bottle has a bottle maker's mark of "P D & CO," indicating it was manufactured by Parke, Davis and Company of Detroit, Michigan. Another bottle has a mark of an "H" inside a triangle, possibly being manufactured by J. T. and A. Hamilton of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. A final bottle has a "TCW CO" mark of the T. C. Wherton Company of Millville, New Jersey.
Date: 1875-1912
Item Number: 453537
Call Number: 14MM327
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 453537
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Business and Industry - Manufacturing
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Health and Hygiene
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - Notable Kansans - Adair, Florella Brown, 1816-1865
People - Notable Kansans - Adair, Samuel Lyle, 1811-1898
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Historic sites - John Brown Museum
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
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