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Archaeology, Advertising, and Curing Your Ails (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison K Butchko.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The idea of archaeology and advertising does not typically go in hand in hand, but advertisements influence our purchases today as much as they did back in the 19th century. Using the archaeological record as a starting point we will explore medicine bottles from the Gunnar’s Run South site located in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA. This site was once mainly row homes...


Sea & the City: A Red Star Line Assemblage in Antwerp (Belgium) (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxime Poulain.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In contrast to what films as Titanic would make believe, scientific knowledge on ocean liners is fairly limited. These boats, and their material culture, however functioned as symbols of modernity par excellence and thus allow a better understanding of the advent of a new world at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. In this paper, an assemblage is presented of ceramics belonging...


Snake Oil Then and Now: What Patent Medicine in 1906 San Francisco Can Teach Us About the Wellness Industry (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie S. Radtkey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Patent medicine is an unregulated proprietary product made and marketed under a patent and available with prescription. By the middle of the 19th century patent medicines had become a major industry in America. This paper examines the use of patent medicine and other personal wellness products within an urban San Francisco...


Soothing the Self: Medicine Advertisement, Non-Performative Identity, and the Cult of Domesticity. (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma L Verstraete.

This is an abstract from the "Health and Inequality in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum were conducted in 2008 and 2009 by Fever River Research and yielded dozens of unique features in downtown Springfield, Illinois. This case study focuses on Feature 35 in the East Parking excavation block that yielded five bottles of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup....