Charles Ellis & Co Philada.

Here is another bottle type I collect. These are Charles Ellis bottles. I especially like the Citrate shaped bottles. Bottles of the shape shown usually contained Citrate of Magnesia. To put it simply it is for folks having issues with their bowels. The bottles shown range in age from around 1850 to 1880.
Charles Ellis (from The First Century of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy)
Charles Ellis, a younger brother of Dr. Benjamin Ellis, the second professor of materia medica and pharmacy in the College, was its fourth president. He was born on January 31, 1800, like his brother, at Muncy, Pa., one of several sons of William Ellis, a Welsh Quaker landholder who settled there, and Mercy Ellis, widely known in the ministry of the Society of Friends. He was taught carefully at home and then proceeded to a school in New York. In 1817 he came to Philadelphia and was apprenticed to Elizabeth Marshall, the talented daughter of Charles Marshall, the first president of the College, who, at that time had the renowned Marshall drug store, then on Chestnut Street above Second Street.
In 1825, Charles Ellis and Isaac P. Morris, another apprentice, formed a co-partnership, purchased the business and continued it as Ellis and Morris. In 1830 the firm was dissolved, Mr. Morris withdrawing and Mr. Ellis continuing the business. In 1832 William Ellis, a nephew, became associated in the business, the firm name being Charles Ellis and Co. The firm rapidly developed a large wholesale and manufacturing business, first establishing a laboratory in Vidall Court, to the east of the main store building, and later, a building was erected at Sixth and Morris Streets for laboratory purposes, and the drug business was removed to more commodious quarters at 724 Market Street. In 1863, there was a division of the firm, William Ellis continuing the business at 724 Market Street, and the reorganized firm of Charles Ellis, Son and Co., opened a store at the northeast corner of Seventh and Market Streets, retaining the laboratory at Sixth and Morris Streets. Subsequently, Charles Ellis erected for the company (and its laboratory) a building at the southwest corner of Tenth and Market Streets, which was occupied until the company ceased business in 1875, after having had a signally honorable life of 146 years, first in the hands of Christopher Marshall who founded it in 1729, and then his descendants and successors.