Brooklyn pharmacy and medicine bottles: Brooklyn pharmacy and medicine bottles: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids

Call Number

2013.022

Date

circa 1880 to 1920, inclusive

Creator

Kone, Allen J. (Role: Collector)

Kone, Allen J. (Role: Donor)

Lyon Manufacturing Company (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Extent

4.1 Linear Feet

in one flat box and and four custom boxes

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

The collection consists of 29 pharmacy and medicine bottles of various sizes produced or used by Brooklyn druggists, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, dating from around 1880 to 1920.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 29 pharmacy and medicine bottles of various sizes produced or used by Brooklyn druggists, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, dating from around 1880 to 1920.

Pharmacies and druggists: Abraham and Straus; Thomas A. Beard (Lee Avenue and Rutledge Street); Le Roy Braswell, The Rexall Store (89 7th Avenue); William Buderus (90 Utica Avenue; 1726 Fulton Street); S. Chichester (357 Myrtle Avenue); Louis Crome, pharmacist (East 92nd Street, Canarsie); Davidson & Bulkley Pharmacy - Brooklyn Heights (84 Montague Street); Fifth Avenue Drug Company (Limited) (522 5th Avenue); William H. Hanson, pharmacist; J. L. House, druggist; F.A. Kattman, pharmacist; R.C. Knipe and Son (690-692 Grand Street); H.W. Koch, pharmacist (3rd Avenue and 74th Street); Frederick Loeser & Co.; Neergaard's Pharmacy (225 5th Avenue); Parrish; L. T. Perkins, pharmacist (19 Greene Avenue); Reid & Snyder, prescription experts (740 Flatbush Avenue); Riker's Drug Stores; D.H. Starr (350 7th Avenue, corner 10th Street); and R.H. Thayer, druggist (33 Atlantic Avenue);

Pharmaceutical and medicinal products: Chas. Dennin - Rheumatism medicine; F. Ad. Richter & Co., Inc. (Berry Street and South Fifth Street) - Loxol Pain Expeller; Fougera's Eau Angelique tooth wash; Lyon Manufacturing Company - Hagan's Magnolia Balm (1919); Lyon Manufacturing Company - Mexican mustang liniment; and J. A. Vaughan - Lister's antiseptic liniment.

Subjects

Organizations

Lyon Manufacturing Company (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Genres

Medicine bottles; Bottles; Artifacts (object genre)

People

Kone, Allen J. (Role: Donor)

Topics

Places

Sunset Park (New York, N.Y.); Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.); Flatbush (New York, N.Y.); Canarsie (New York, N.Y.); Park Slope (New York, N.Y.); Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.); Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Donors

Kone, Allen J.

Conditions Governing Access

Open to researchers without restriction.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date (if known); Brooklyn pharmacy and medicine bottles, 2013.022, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Historical Society.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Allen J. Kone, 2013.

Related Materials

The Edward R. Squibb collection (2008.021) contains additional material related to the Brooklyn pharmaceutical industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Collection processed by

John Zarrillo

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Language: Finding aid written in English

Processing Information

Minimally processed to the collection level.

Repository

Brooklyn Historical Society

Box: 1 of 5 (Material Type: Realia)

Box: 2 of 5 (Material Type: Realia)

Box: 5 of 5 (Material Type: Realia)

Box: 3 of 5 (Material Type: Realia)

Box: 4 of 5 (Material Type: Realia)

Brooklyn pharmacy and medicine bottles