Authentic medicine containers, including one for "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People," inside the apothecary, an early form of a pharmacy, at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont
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More than 150,000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings (several moved to this location) at the museum of art, design, and Americana near Lake Champlain. Many of the potions displayed were of dubious, or worthless, value to ill patients.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Date
01/01/2017
Location
shelburne
Source
Library of Congress
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