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Drug Jar
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This blown glass drug jar has a flared lip and its baked white oval enamel label is framed by green vines. Containers with blank labels could be filled with different ingredients depending on the apothecary's needs. When the contents of the jars were replaced, the apothecary would write the appropriate name in the medallion.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineDrug Jar. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
