A chance find of an unusual Glaxo baby bottle in the Te Manawa collection store prompted Archivist Juliet Galuszka to explore the history of Glaxo and its abandoned factory in Bunnythorpe. Tracing the entrepreneurial vision of Joseph Nathan and his family, this talk traverses the early dairy industry of the region Glaxo’s “bonnie babies”, and how a banana-shaped baby bottle was “the saviour” of non-breast-fed babies at the beginning of the 20th century.
You may be interested in other talks in this Histories and Mysteries in the Collection series:
Thursday 12 March, The Ian Matheson City Archives with City Archivist, Heather Glasgow
Thursday 26 March, The Engineer Corps Memorial Centre with Director, LTCOL (Rtd) Joe Hollander
Thursday 2 April, Massey University Archives with University Archivist, Louis Changuion
Thursday 9 April, Te Manawa Museum of Arts, Science and Heritage with Archivist, Juliet Galuszka
Image: Te Manawa Museum. (n.d.). Glaxo Laboratories (NZ) Ltd, Banana shaped glass baby bottle in its original box, 1916-1960, [Photograph]. 92/166/17, Collection of Te Manawa Museums Trust
