Base of Pluto Water Bottle excavated at 1222 Howard Street

ID: 6187 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology and Sociology ~ Date: 2020

This file appears in: The Puckett Household: 1930s Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood

Base of Pluto Water Bottle excavated at 1222 Howard Street

Pluto Water was sold in distinctive bottles with a devil-like figure on the base. The residents at 1222 LaSalle favored Pluto Water, “America’s Physic.”

This file appears in: The Puckett Household: 1930s Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood

The Puckett Household: 1930s Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood

By D. Ryan Gray, edited by Kathryn A. O’Dwyer & Lauren Smith

In 2013, archaeological consulting firm Earth Search, Inc., excavated a block of the Melpomene neighborhood originally bounded by South Liberty, Erato, Clio, and Howard/LaSalle Streets. Earth Search identified brick foundations and artifacts from a…