jar
date: label: Date made
content: 1790-1810
label: Date made
content: 1775 - 1799
notes: label: Description
content: Containers with blank labels could be filled with different ingredients depending on the apothecaries needs. When the contents of the jars were replaced, apothecaries would write the appropriate name in the medallion. Urdang attributes the containers 1991.0664.0760 through 1991.0664.0825 to the town of Hanau in the late 18th century based on the floral garland surrounding the medallion and the initials HN on the bottom of many of the jars in the series. However, in a letter dated August 1983, the pharmaceutical history scholar Wolfgang-Hagen Hein believes the unmarked containers and those marked FH were made in Florsheim in the German state of Hesse jst twenty-three miles southwest of Hanau.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0769
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05981
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 693
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Jar
label: Other Terms
content: Jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.5 cm x 7.6 cm; 2 15/16 in x 3 in