1895 was the year The Williamsburg Drug Company was started. My pharmacist ancestor Dr. Daniel Sterling briefly lived and Williamsburg (as well as Portsmouth, Richmond, and Norfolk), so I popped into their Jamestown Road pharmacy to see one of his contemporaries. (Scroll to the bottom to see an up close of the neon sign.)

See also: My apothecary collection

This picture demonstrates what WDC looked like, on Duke of Gloucester Street, before Rockefeller helped revert Williamsburg to its colonial origins. 

Owners:

Warren Harrell https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/vagazette/name/warren-harrell-obituary?id=22419762

Apothecary bottles:

Tr Jalap. E - This tall, Amber colored bottle is on the second floor at the Jamestown location. For more about the use of this root, see https://www.rxlist.com/supplements/jalap.htm

The clear bottle on the right demonstrates that WDC was a Rexall Drug Store...which inherently means it was some point between 1920-1977. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexall#:~:text=Rexall%20was%20a%20chain%20of,States%20from%201920%20to%201977

This link shows one additional bottle:

http://chosi.org/drugstore/cities/williamsburg/williamsburg.html

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