CSPAN3 American Artifacts March 28, 2016
Operated by the same family for over a century. We will learn about what an apothecary does and how medicine has changed over many years. My name is gretchen bulova, and i am the director of the Apothecary Museum in alexandria, virginia. The museum is owned and operated by the city of alexandria. Today we are going to look at the stablerleadbeater Apothecary Museum and we will learn a little bit more about its history. Alexandria in the 1790s is a booming economy. It is a thriving seaport, there is a lot of new construction in town a lot of people are , starting to move to the city. Edward sta...