Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1990.044.07
- Place of Origin:
- Nashua, NH
- Description:
- Box, pharmacy. Cardboard. Lid with blue top and sides with white edges hinged to blue sided base with white edges. In white labelling on top of lid "WINGATE'S / PHARMACY / HOMER WINGATE / PROPRIETOR / 129 MAIN ST. NASHUA, N.H. / TEL 547 / DIRECTIONS INSIDE". Images of pharmaceutical measuring devices also shown. Pasted into interior of lid, typed and printed; "DIRECTIONS / No. 150303 Date 11/4/45 / One every 3 hours / Dr. Flagg. / To protect our patrons from error we have these boxes hinged to prevent box lids getting mixed."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-1 W-2.375 L-1.375 inches
- Provenance:
- Donated by Rev. William T. Knapp's three daughters.
Used by Dr. Samuel Stahl (1892-1986), who practiced denistry in Manchester NH., 1916-1979. He was born in Poland and came to Lebanon, NH in 1899. He went to Tufts Medical School, 1912-1915. He served in the Army Dental Corps in World War 1, and as Presidenet of the Manchester Dental Society in the 1920s. His son, David G. Stahl, is also a Manchester denist. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Barbara Knapp Hamblett, Martha Knapp Cushman, and Margery Knapp MacRay
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