Bottle, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.246
- Place of Origin:
- Jersey City, NJ
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Medicine bottle, Tilly Haarlem Oil Company, Jersey City NJ. Clear glass. Narrow, cylindrical body. Printed paper label wrapped all the way around bottle: "Net contents: 3/8 Fluid oz. / GENUINE / TILLY HAARLEM OIL / Active ingredients: / Oil of Turpentine, Sulphuretted Linseed Oil / Prepared in U.S.A. after the / Original Tilly Formula / Genuine Tilly Haarlem Oil Co., Inc. / Jersey City, N.J." Black metal screw cap. Shield and sword emblem on label and cap. Bottle contains thick dark brown liquid, about 3/4 full.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-3.9 Dia-0.75 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, Medicines
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