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This clear glass medicine bottle with a metal screw top once contained cough syrup.
A printed label reads “R.W. Vinson Druggist, On the Corner, Rockville, Md.” The drugstore, demolished in 1962 for urban renewal, was built in the 1880s on Montgomery Avenue diagonally across from the Red Brick Courthouse. It was run by Robert William “Doc” Vinson from 1900 until his death in 1958.
A typed prescription label notes “Dr. E.E.S.” for Dr. Edward Elisha Stonestreet, a Montgomery County native educated at the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, 1850-1852.
The frame building that Dr. Stonestreet used as his office for half a century, 1852 to 1903, is now located on the Beall-Dawson House grounds, where it is administered by Montgomery History as the Stonestreet Medical Museum.
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