Try the Baltimore Museum of Industry (410/727-4808) or the Maryland Pharmacy
Museum of the Maryland Pharmacy Association at (410/727-0746)

Anyway, the Emerson Drug Company of Baltimore was fairly famous. Their
premier product was Bromo-Seltzer and "Capt." Emerson was a fairly famous
local rich guy and I believe a graduate of the Pharmacy School at University
of Maryland at Baltimore. Bromo-seltzer was bottled in those Cobalt Blue
bottles that Noxzema (another local Baltimore product) later made famous. If
you watch Oriole Games on television you can still see the Bromo-seltzer
Tower over the left field wall. It is a large replica of an Italian clock
tower (I forget which one) and the clock uses the words "Bromo Seltzer
instead of the numbers. They even shine blue lights out of the top to evoke
the  huge bottle of Bromo that used to rotate up there. Pretty cool.

Anyway, either resource should have information useful to you. And I
recently saw Bromo-Seltzer on sale somewhere, but the Emerson drug company
is long out of business. Doc Goodie's headache powder is still sold, but I
can't remember if that was a seltzer or just a powder. And of course
Alka-Seltzer is still very popular, but those are tablets not powders.

Anyway, I hope some of this was useful.


--
Matthew White
Director, Hands On Science Center
National Museum of American History
Behring Center


[log in to unmask] said:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm researching a program on beverages in the 19th century, and run into a
> bit of a road block about soda/seltzer powders. Any direction to a resource
> would be very helpful, and I'd love to know if anyone is aware of a company
> still producing these items for sale.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Dan Pipe
> Historic Sites Intern
> Macon County Conservation District
> Decatur, IL.

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