Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.206

Place of Origin:

Farmington, NH

Date:

circa 1900

Description:

Packaged medicine, W. W. Roberts, Farmington, NH. Small rectangular cardboard box. Yellow and white, with black printing. Printed on top, "CORN REMOVER / EACH FLUID OUNCE / CONTAINS: ALCOHOL 9%, ETHER 40% / AMERICAN CANNABIS EXT. 3 GRS." Printed on back, "DISTRIBUTED BY / W. W. ROBERTS, / FAMILY DRUGGIST, / Odd Fellows Block, / FARMINGTON, N. H." Uses printed on front. Text on bottom refers to enclosed circular. Box contains glass vial with rubber cap and printed paper label that has same text as box, with directions. Printed circular wrapper around vial, with directions in several languages. Contents of vial appear to be dried up.

Material:

Paper
Glass

Dimensions:

H-0.8 W-0.8 L-2.9 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