Collection Highlights
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
1924
1952.45
Brown flesh tone painted plaster with wooden base
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Physician's saddlebags w/bottles & bundles
Title
Physician's saddlebags w/bottles & bundles
Object name
Physician's saddlebags and medicines
Date
1800-1850
Medium
Leather, metal, glass, paper
Dimensions
Overall: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 9 in. ( 19 x 24.1 x 22.9 cm )
Description
Leather saddlebags with two buckled pouches connected by leather strap; one pouch with ten dividers containing four glass vials and one bundle wrapped in paper and twine; other pouch undivided. 35 additional medicine vials and bundles, stored separately.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. E.L. Woolf
Object Number
1954.11
Gallery Label
According to accession records, these saddlebags belonged to Dr. Myron Orton (1784-1873) of Niagara County, New York, the donor's great-grandfather. Dr. Orton used them on the Niagara frontier in 1811, while in the local militia in the War of 1812, and later at Pekin (Sanborn), Niagara County.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
