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The Truant Gamblers (Undutiful Boys)
1835
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Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bottle/ medicine
Object name
Bottle/ medicine
Date
1880-1906
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
5 x 1 1/4 in. diameter
Description
This cylindrical pale aqua glass bottle has a hand finished cork top and is embossed around the bottle "Mrs. Winslow's/ Soothing Syrup/ The Anglo- American Drug Co./ Successors To/ Curtis and Perkins/ Proprietors". This patent teething medicine contained opiates, laudanum or morphine, which was notable for poisoning and addicting infants before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.2470
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
