Highlights from the UT Southwestern Archives and the History of the Health Sciences collection are now available in Flickr, which is an image and video hosting web site and an online community.
Flickr is a place to share photos and videos in multiple ways. Explore a collection through tags, or view a set of photos as a slideshow.
The Library’s Apothecary Jars Collection includes the majority of pictures of the beautiful jars that were used in apothecary shops – early equivalents of what we call “pharmacies” – to hold medications and ingredients. Each picture in the collection is categorized within four distinct categories (botanical contents, historical interest, pain relief, and symbols) and includes a description of the jar’s contents and its use.
However, little is known about a few jars, and these photos are the included in the Flickr collection. We invite your help in identifying these jars and what they might have contained. Also, what is their age and country of origin? Were they for display use only, or were they working jars in an apothecary shop? Are they replicas or antiques? If you know anything about these jars, help us expand what is known by commenting on a photo or tagging a photo with a note.
Subscribe to our Flickr Photostream via RSS to stay up-to-date as we add more photos from the Archives and History collections beyond apothecary jars. The UT Southwestern Archives contains campus publications, unpublished documents, yearbooks, and more. Medical artifacts, books, and journals recording the history of medicine and other health sciences are available in our History collection. We’ll be looking to you to help us:
- Identify unknown people in photos
- Share how particular medical artifacts were used
- Provide local historical information