Great Research Site for bottles

[RIBottleguy]

I have been conducting a lot of research on RI bottles of all types for the last few years. A site that always came up in my Google searches was Fold3.com. They would give you a little snippet and ask you to sign up to see the whole document. I finally decided to enjoy their offer of a free 7 day trial, and it was definitely worth it! For Rhode Island they had detailed state directories from 1861-1924. It was a gold mine full of neat ads and listings of pharmacists, liquor dealers, bottlers and much more. You could save individual pages from the directories as jpegs. They have directories for 22 other states.If you try the site out just be sure to cancel your trial before 7 days, or you will get hit with a $80 annual fee. http://www.fold3.com/browse.php#3|

 

[RIBottleguy]

Just to give you an idea of some of the stuff I pillaged from the site. I saved over 500mb of images! Nice ads for bottles I have. (the Health Regulator and the Lymansville soda)

More ads, all bottles I have.

Example of the directory for those who are unfamiliar. Every trade is listed out. For Providence there was an alphabetical list of residents as well.

 

[buzzkutt033]

thanks for the heads up. there are 3 counties from Pennsylvania in their database, butnone in my digging area. looks like a valuable tool for collectors and diggers alike!! jim

 

[NYCFlasks]

I checked it out, and wow, the answer to my dreams! Thank you so much.

 

[RED Matthews]

I didn't have much success with it. RED Matthews