Whiskey Bottle Excavated in Anacostia

Object Details

Date
ca. 1970
Medium
glass, liquid, paint, plastic
Dimensions
4 × 3 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (10.2 × 8.9 × 5.7 cm)
Cite As
Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Caption
In the early 1980s, archaeologists excavated land along Howard Road, SE before construction began on the Anacostia Metro Station in southeast Washington, DC. Objects unearthed in the excavation revealed nearly 10,000 years of human settlement in the area. Among their discoveries was a glass bottle that once held Old Taylor, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The bottle’s design features “Old Taylor” in curved capital letters on the front and a plastic cap. It hails from the early 1970s, as the “bourbon boom” was ending, forty years past Prohibition.
Accession Number
1991.0064.0007
Type
bottle
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Anacostia Community Museum Collection
Data Source
Anacostia Community Museum
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dl863217e47-9549-4ea3-ba75-9f16a5df14b3
Record ID
acm_1991.0064.0007
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