Henry B. Gilpin Company


Company Names, addresses, dates: 1
  Henry B. Gilpin Company, 33 Fayette Street, Norfolk VA (ca.1927-ca.1929)
  Henry B. Gilpin Company, 131 W Main Street, Norfolk VA (ca.1930-ca.1932)
  Henry B. Gilpin Company, 133 W Main Street, Norfolk VA (ca.1933-1939)
  Henry B. Gilpin Company, 129-33 W Main Street, Norfolk VA (1940-ca.1950)
  Henry B. Gilpin Company, 129 W Main Street, Norfolk VA (ca.1952-ca.1955)
  Henry B. Gilpin Company, 6425 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk VA (ca.1958-1960+)

Notes:
The Henry B Gilpin Co was a wholesale drug firm - a distributor of health care products to many drugstores, with stores in Norfolk, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.2.
The proprietor was Henry Brook Gilpin (1853-1929), who lived in Baltimore MD3,4.

His company's presence in Norfolk was from 1927 to sometime on or after 1960. The years at various addresses listed above are approximate, as I only did a sampling of the Norfolk city directories, and I didn't go past 1960. 2


Bottles:
gilpin_02 This is an 8.9" tall, clear, machine-made bottle with a label that says:
label: BANANA LIQUIUD / BRONZING LIQUID / THE HENRY B. GILPIN COMPANY / Manufacturing Pharmacists / Baltimore Md.     Norfolk Va.     Washington, D.C.


Other Items:
gilpin_01 This is a 4.5" tall, 2.25" diameter cardboard canister with a label that says:
label: POWDERED / CHINESE / NUTGALLS / Packed by / THE HENRY B. GILPIN COMPANY / Manufacturing Pharmacists / BALTIMORE MD     NORFOLK VA     WASHINGTON, D.C.


1 Norfolk City directories, 1925,27,28,30,33,35,38,39,40,49,52,58,60
2 Book: Antique Bottles from the Washington, D.C. Area, 5th edition, page 77
3 1900 US Census lists Henry Gilpin as a drugist living in Baltimore, born in 1853
4 Knoxville News-Sentinel, 19-Dec-1929, page 17, obituary for Henry Brook Gilpin


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