Brown Boy Soda
Title
Brown Boy Soda
Subject
Foodways
Soft Drinks
Description
Brown Boy Bottling Co. was the first black-owned soda bottling company in the country, they produced a soda of the same name. It was co-owned by C. E. Prothro Jr (business manager of Morris Brown College) and Jesse B. Blayton (radio entrepreneur and businessman). Brown Boy was sold in Atlanta, but the bottles were produced in Jackson, Mississippi by the Knox Glass Co. as identified by the "J in a keystone" mark on the bottom of the bottle.
Embossing:
EVERY BOTTLE STERILIZED
[logo]
FLAVORS THAT SATISFY
Bottom:
(outer) PROPERTY OF BROWN-BOY BOTT. CO
(inner) 17-8-6 1/2 ATLANTA GA
[in keystone] J
Embossing:
EVERY BOTTLE STERILIZED
[logo]
FLAVORS THAT SATISFY
Bottom:
(outer) PROPERTY OF BROWN-BOY BOTT. CO
(inner) 17-8-6 1/2 ATLANTA GA
[in keystone] J
Source
https://assimediafinal.s3.amazonaws.com/site3918/reseller3448/company45879/user111969/1617134447_Oracle-Dec-40.pdf
Robert W. Woodruff Library
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Official_Gazette_of_the_United_States_Pa/YTzU5oEBjSEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq="brown+boy+bottling"&pg=PA22&printsec=frontcover
https://glassbottlemarks.com/bottlemarks-3/
Robert W. Woodruff Library
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Official_Gazette_of_the_United_States_Pa/YTzU5oEBjSEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq="brown+boy+bottling"&pg=PA22&printsec=frontcover
https://glassbottlemarks.com/bottlemarks-3/
Publisher
Phoenix Project
Date
1939-1953(?)
Contributor
HIP-SI 2023
Format
Weight: 396.9g
Diameter: 56.3mm
Height: 20.7cm
Diameter: 56.3mm
Height: 20.7cm
Type
Glass
Bottle
Identifier
p178, ACC 222
Coverage
CCU 415
Collection
Citation
“Brown Boy Soda,” The Phoenix Project , accessed September 16, 2024, http://martaphoenixproject.gsuanthropology.com/items/show/91.