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Sign for patent medicine in Bakwena Store
Sign for patent medicine in Bakwena Store
Object Number 2001.29.6590
Display Title Sign for patent medicine in Bakwena Store
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • Kwena
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Kweneng / <County> / Molepolole
Materials slide, 35mm
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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People at the Bakwena Store gas pump, expedition Dodge truck in the background
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Woman walking by Bakwena Store
2001.29.6589 Woman walking by Bakwena Store
Molepolole
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970-25-10/51440 Patent medicine vial, 1 oz. clear glass
Puddle Dock
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Puddle Dock
Patent medicine vendor
2017.11.1.567 Patent medicine vendor
Miyagi
Knobel's store, expedition Dodge truck parked outside
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Molepolole
2 white milk glass vessel fragments, 1 rim fragment with red on edge of rim, 3 colorless vessel glas fragments, 1 patent finish, 2 olive green vessel glass fragments, 1 patent finish, 1 base kick up
980-24-10/100698 2 white milk glass vessel fragments, 1 rim fragment with red on edge of rim, 3 colorless vessel glas fragments, 1 patent finish, 2 olive green vessel glass fragments, 1 patent finish, 1 base kick up
Fragment
Colorless bottle glass
Olive green bottle glass
Harvard Yard
Inside Knobel's store, people at the counter
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Molepolole
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Nantucket Teen Center
Intact colorless glass bottle, Mold seams, patent lip, "hourglass" shape, embossed on base "S.K.5792"
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Bottle
Harvard Yard
Aqua glass bottle, with cork and some contents still intact. Tooled patent finish. Rectangular, mold blown bottle. Embossed on the base with "13[or 8]45"
996-3-10/71227 Aqua glass bottle, with cork and some contents still intact. Tooled patent finish. Rectangular, mold blown bottle. Embossed on the base with "13[or 8]45"
Bottle
Cork
Harvard Yard
Colorless glass bottle. Tooled patent finish, mold blown
996-3-10/71228 Colorless glass bottle. Tooled patent finish, mold blown
Bottle
Harvard Yard