By the Bottle: Supplying an 19th Century Frontier Fort

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In the mid to late 19th century, food, beverages, medicine, and various other household supplies were packaged and shipped all over the United States and its territories while housed in a variety of packaging. One type of packaging is the ubiquitous glass bottle or jar. This poster will present a sample of the various types of bottles and other glass vessels from a collection of artifacts from the Fort Ellsworth (14EW26) Site, Kansas, which was excavated in 1999 and 2000 for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, and is in the process of being rehabilitated by the Veterans Curation Program in St. Louis, Missouri.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025   •
• 2025 SHA Poster Submissions

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow