Cherokee Liniment
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1848 - 1860
label: Date made
content: c. 1850
name: label: maker
content: Louden & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: 12-sided aqua glass bottle with “LOUDEN & CO. / CHEROKEE / LINIMENT” inscriptions. Louden & Co. was a pharmaceutical firm in Philadelphia that advertised Cherokee Liniment “for the immediate destruction of the Screw Worm and the Blow Fly.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Louden & Co. ad in The Texas Almanac for 1857 (Galveston, 1856).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Rubs, Liniments & Ointments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Balm of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.256193.342
label: catalog number
content: M-10755
label: accession number
content: 256193
label: catalog number
content: 256193.342
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle, OTC Preparation
label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Bottle; Bottle, OTC Preparation; Containers
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green ware (overall popular color name)
label: Physical Description
content: 12-sided (overall shape)
label: Physical Description
content: narrow mouth (overall shape)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 13.6525 cm x 3.81 cm