M0013729: English feeding bottle, c.1860

Previous title, replaced January 2022: English feeding bottle, glass, circa 1860.

Photograph of an English infant feeding bottle, glass, c.1860, a modified form of the boat-shape feeding bottle. The item was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R619/1938)

October 1954

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 11 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item (acc. number R619/1938 image 53)

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.