Snider bottle

[jsp1946]

Howdy.
While digging in Selma, Alabama yesterday I turned up the pictured bottle. It does have a maker's mark, but I can't really find anything on Snider. I'm assuming it was a drug store. Any info appreciated. Happy digging.

 

[UncleBruce]

I live in Selma at one time. 1972-76
Nice find. Possibly a medicine. With nothing else on it & no paper label it will be difficult to determine what it was used for. You could go to Newspapers.com and with some research you might find the company that is if they advertised. Good luck.

 

[jsp1946]

I live in Selma at one time. 1972-76
Nice find. Possibly a medicine. With nothing else on it & no paper label it will be difficult to determine what it was used for. You could go to Newspapers.com and with some research you might find the company that is if they advertised. Good luck.

Thanks. I'll try that as well. I did find a listing for a Snider Drug company from (I think) 1914-1915 as a photography supply source. The maker's mark said the bottles were made between the 1890s to 1901.

 

[Sitcoms]

EDIT: did a bit more research and found some more.

I can't find exactly when this company may have been founded, but as early as 1895 I can find advertisements from a local store that mention "Snider's Catsup" and Snider's Soup"; I'm not sure if these are related.

In 1909 Percy Dawson, Daniel Mitchell, and L.M. Snider incorporated the Mitchell-Snider Drug Co. If I had to guess L.M. Snider had a drug store business before this, but I haven't gotten to research to confirm. https://books.google.com/books?id=K...page&q="Mitchell-Snider Drug Company"&f=false

I think this company probably eventually became the below companies: it was the Mitchell-Snider Drug Co. (1909-1912), Dawson-Mitchell Drug Co (1912-1914(ish)), and simply called the Snider Drug Co. after about 1915. Last I can find of the company is in the mid-20s.

(1911 Selma Times-Journal)

1916 Selma Times-Journal

 

[jsp1946]

EDIT: did a bit more research and found some more.

I can't find exactly when this company may have been founded, but as early as 1895 I can find advertisements from a local store that mention "Snider's Catsup" and Snider's Soup"; I'm not sure if these are related.

In 1909 Percy Dawson, Daniel Mitchell, and L.M. Snider incorporated the Mitchell-Snider Drug Co. If I had to guess L.M. Snider had a drug store business before this, but I haven't gotten to research to confirm. https://books.google.com/books?id=KGQ6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA524&lpg=PA524&dq="Mitchell-Snider+Drug+Company"&source=bl&ots=8KgzezMYiS&sig=ACfU3U2nCFFTJjOamgQQcigd4iKKLewKww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOx5b7y5aBAxUTOlkFHYT4ANgQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q="Mitchell-Snider Drug Company"&f=false

I think this company probably eventually became the below companies: it was the Mitchell-Snider Drug Co. (1909-1912), Dawson-Mitchell Drug Co (1912-1914(ish)), and simply called the Snider Drug Co. after about 1915. Last I can find of the company is in the mid-20s.

View attachment 249449 (1911 Selma Times-Journal)
View attachment 249450 1916 Selma Times-Journal

Thanks for the info. I did find an odd reference for "Snider Drug Co." as a source for photographic supplies in Selma from 1913-1914. I'll have to get the bottle good and clean and see if I can date it a little closer. Teens to early 20s seems to match the other bottles from this particular hole.

 

[5 gallon collector]

JSP1946, I think that L. M. Snider (Laney Merritt Snider), mentioned above, is likely your man. Here are some ancestry . com hits - I am sure that much more is available -- earlier census records, many additional city directory records, and so on.

 

[5 gallon collector]

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