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These medicinal bottles were recovered from the dump at the Security Benefit Home and Hospital Association in Shawnee County. All four bottles have a small mouth external thread finish (the top of the bottle). The bottle on the far left has no bottle maker's mark, but the cobalt blue bottle next to it has the mark of the Maryland Glass Corporation of Baltimore, Maryland, who manufactured cobalt blue bottles exclusively for their subsidiary, the Emerson Drug Company. The other two brown bottles were both manufactured by the Owens Illinois Glass Company of Toledo, Ohio. The smallest bottle still retains most of its metal screw-on cap. Security Benefit Home and Hospital Association, begun in 1916, eventually included a hospital, a cooperative farm, a school, a hotel, and provided homes for orphans and the elderly.
Date: 1919-1950
Item Number: 472328
Call Number: 14SH379
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 472328
Business and Industry - Health care - Hospitals
Business and Industry - Manufacturing
Home and Family - Daily life - Health and Hygiene
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
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