Name/Title
Red Mercurochrome bottle from the Security Drug Company, Inc, 1925Entry/Object ID
2021.38.7Description
Acc. No. 21.38.7
Subject Category: Businesses; Drug Stores
Date or Period: 1925
Object: Medical Bottle
Description: Apparently red glass bottle (or clear glass bottle stained red by its contents) with cork stopper and label with green and pink (possibly originally red) type logo 'Security Drug Company Inc.' and in green type on white: '1440 Park St. at Santa Clara Ave., Alameda Cal, Telephone Alameda 0024-0029' and typed information: '2% Solution Mercurochrome' and handwritten: 19 Oct, 25.
Size: L 3”
History of Object: Bottle with Mercurochrome prepared in 1925 at the Security Drug Company, Inc., corner Park and Santa Clara, 1925, owner Henry F. Schuldt (1866-1929). This was formerly the drug store of physician J.A. Riley, and briefly Eberly's Quality Drug Store.
Mercurochrome was used as an antiseptic after 1918, and as dye because of its deep red color, but it is no longer sold in the U.S. because of its mercury content.
Bottle was likely owned by the Nachbar family of 2042 Pacific Avenue.
Acquired from:
Tony Avanzino / Avanzino-Winslow-Nachbar estate
Catalog Date: 5/2/2021
