About the Book

This small but gloriously illustrated softcover book presents colorful examples from an amazing find of nineteenth-century bottles in a shipwreck in the deep Atlantic, 100 miles off the coast of Georgia.

The bottles were en route to New Orleans in October 1865, just months after the end of the Civil War. They reveal a time capsule of bottled goods—from popular herbal bitters and quack medicines to condiments, fruit preserves, hair tonics, writing inks, perfumes, beer, wine, and much more.

Book details

Bottles from the Deep
Patent Medicines, Bitters, & Other Bottles from the Wreck of the Steamship Republic
by Ellen C. Gerth
112 pages • 7 × 7 inches • softcover
ISBN-10: 1-933034-07-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-933034-07-2