Perfume Bottles from the Onondaga

Object/Artifact

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Perfume Bottles from the Onondaga

Entry/Object ID

2025.605

Description

Three small glass perfume bottles, salvaged from the wreck of the Onondaga by Ron Shvonski. The steamship Onondaga left Boston on June 27, 1918 headed for Jacksonville, Florida. She sank off the Watch Hill reef after being redirected into Long Island Sound to avoid U-boats in Narragansett Bay.

Made/Created

Date made

1915 - 1918

Time Period

20th Century