As the 20th century drew closer, companies redesigned the containers for their products. Proprietors and bottle manufacturers continued to create variations on classic designs. Form became the clue to function as embossing became less common. Medicine bottle manufacturers of earlier eras left a legacy of designs and forms of great beauty and variety. Like their later counterparts, these early containers mirrored the society that created them. Each was unique - an individual creation. These early bottles were appropriate for a pioneer society. Their crudity beckoned to the days of the log cabin when everything was hand-made. The "modern" bottle was far less exciting, less individual and reflected the changes in American society. The industrial age was in full swing. Production and uniformity became the goals. The bottles below fall at the very end of the hand-tooled era. Glass blowers began forming unions in response to the threat of mechanization. While medicine, food and beverage manufacturers demanded not only greater numbers and better quality containers but demanded them in clear glass which would display their products better. The common "green glass" so long the medium of choice had within the span of a few short years nearly disappeared. Things were changing.

1908 Prescription	1908 Dental Bottle	1908 Prescription
1907 Prescription	1906 Inhaler	1903 Prescription
1903 Wheaton Prescription	1901 Medicine	1900 medicine
1900 Prescription	1900 Prescription	1899 Medicine
1899 Medicine	1898 Munyon's Inhaler	1898 Whitall-Tatum Prescription
1898 Vinol	1897 Whitall -Tatum	1896 Prescription
1896 Medicine	1896 Prescription	1895 Druggist
1895 Druggist	1894 Laxol	1894 Whitall -Tatum
1893 Citrate Magnesia	1893 Dr. Fahrney	1893 Whitall -Tatum
	1892 Whitall - Tatum	1892 Medicine

MEDICINE BOTTLE DESIGNS

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