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Artifact Name	Small Glass Prescription Vial
Type of Object	Bottle, drug
Date of Manufacture	1929-1940
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	6.3 cm. x 1 cm. x 1 cm.
Physical Details	Glass prescription vial with stainless steel slip cap. Taller than wide, round, and made of lightweight glass. The vial has a cap which is designed to slip on and off of the top with the finger, patented 1929 (US Pat #1720835) Outside of bottle has a sticker label with hand-printed description: "Tablets Ergothate 1/320 grain #1572 Lilly." Bottom of bottle has a small wad of cotton and a small round pill on the top. Sized to fit in a leather loop at the top of a medicine kit (1985.19.11a).
Medical Subject	Drug Packaging
Accession Number	1985.19.11h
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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