Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.205
- Place of Origin:
- Farmington, NH
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Packaged medicine, W. W. Roberts, Farmington, NH. Small rectangular cardboard box; two-piece matchbox type. Gold and white, with black printing. Printed on top, "ROBERTS' / HEADACHE / KONSEALS OR WAFERS / ALWAYS EFFECTIVE", with image of clock embossed "TAKEN IN TIME / GIVE QUICK RELIEF". Printed on bottom, "W. W. ROBERTS, / FAMILY DRUGGIST, / Odd Fellows Block, / FARMINGTON, N. H.", with directions. More directions printed on back. Uses printed on front. Box contains white wafers.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.6 W-1.3 L-3.4 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 also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068.)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- People:
- Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Drugs
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