Beer Bottle · Learning from Cooper Street · Online Exhibits at Rutgers University-Camden

Title: Beer Bottle
Description: This bottle was used to sell and distribute beer by Charles Joly, a bottler at 9 Seventh Street in Philadelphia. Consumers paid for the beer, but not the bottle. Beer drinkers would return the bottles to the brewer or take the bottles back to get them refilled.
Subject: 300 BlockSee all items with this value; Alumni House DisplaySee all items with this value; ArchaeologySee all items with this value; Food and DrinkSee all items with this value; PhiladelphiaSee all items with this value
Contributor: Anila Ramsarran (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner.
Date: c. late nineteenth century; photograph, April 2018.
Format: Glass beer bottle, 9.5 x 2.5 x 1 inches.
Publisher: Rutgers University-Camden
Relation: Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation.
Rights: Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts
Source: Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J.
Original Format: Photograph