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Themes Gallery: Childhood


Baby's bottle and infant food ad

This glass feeding bottle has measurements marked on the outside. A rubber teat for drinking would have been fitted on the end. In poorer homes babies were sometimes fed on skimmed condensed milk, which was not very nutritious.

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Roll over this photo to switch between the baby's bottle in the museum's collection and an 1889 advertisement for baby food.


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