Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2006.26.004
Accession#:
2006.26
Credit Line:
Donated by LInda Wahto.
Object Name:
Bottle
Title:
Amber colored alcohol bottle
Date:
ca 1933—1964
Description:
Brown glass colored flat with sides shaped like a barrel alcohol bottle on front in raised lettering just below shoulder that states "Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re—Use of this Bottle" a number 16 is at the base. "Half Pint" in raised letters at bottom section on back base. Bottom has:
D—126
12 A within a circle 50
Made in USA
Pat.D 419546

Has a screw top with lid.

Bottles labeled as this one probably was made sometime between 1933—1964 (see "The Antique Bottle Collector" by Grace Kendrick in museum reference)
Notes:
Collection donated by Linda Wahto, brought in by donor's daughter Myiia Whistler. According to Whistler, Wahto and Willette Janes would hunt bottles together. Bottles found in Treadwell/Douglas area. Some are from Myiia's grandfather's house/cabin on the Treadwell Ditch. He grew up there — they tossed garbage into the ditch. Mom/Grandma and Janes would bottle hunt up at the cabin site.
People:
Wahto, Linda
Janes, Willette
Whistler, Myiia
Search Terms:
Vice
Treadwell
Food
Mining
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