Alligator
notes: label: Description
content: Alligators have long been associated with apothecary shops. William Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet, describes an apothecary in which hangs “An alligaro stuff’d, and other skins of ill-shaped fishes.” This stuffed baby alligator came from the Hollis Apothecary Shop in Boston, Mass. Thomas Hollis (1802-1875) was born in Boston, and apprenticed with a pharmacist in Charleston. In partnership with Daniel Gregg, he opened a shop on Union Street in Boston in 1826 and took over the shop when Gregg retired in 1831. He advertised as Druggist, Chemist and Apothecary, and was actively involved in the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and the American Pharmaceutical Association.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10733
label: catalog number
content: M-10733
label: accession number
content: 256193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Alligator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: skin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 7 in x 25 1/2 in; 10.4775 cm x 17.78 cm x 64.77 cm