Jar, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Jar, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.189
- Date:
- 1940-1960
- Description:
- Medicinal jar. Opaque cream-colored glass. Cylindrical body with two raised ribs around exterior. Two gray bands and one orange band around circumference. Imprinted (pyroglazed) on front in black and orange: "DARVON� / COMPOUND-65 / 65 mg. propoxyphene hydrochloride, 227 mg. / aspirin, 162 mg. phenacetin, and 32.4 mg. caffeine". Embossed "8" on bottom. Removable cover of same material, with knob handle.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-5.2 Dia-3 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to library (1992-068.)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- People:
- Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists
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