Bottle, Medicine

Object Name:

Bottle, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.249

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

1900-1920

Description:

Medicine bottle, Fairchild Brothers Foster, New York, NY. Brown glass. Cylindrical body with round shoulders and slightly tapered sides. Broken circle embossed on front shoulder. Long cylindrical neck, slightly bulbous. Printed paper label on front, red and black on white: "SCIENTIFIC RATIONAL COMBINATION OF THE / SOLUBLE CONSTITUENTS OF FRESH RAW RED / BONE MARROW AND DEFIBRINATED BULLOCKS' BLOOD. / CARNOGEN / ... / Fairchild Bros. Foster / NEW YORK."; with directions. Label wraps all the way around bottle, with ingredients and uses printed on back. Diagonal printed paper label on neck, with more directions. Cork stopper. Corkscrew and wax seal connected to red ribbon tied around top of neck. Bottle contains thick, dark liquid, full to neck.

Material:

Glass

Dimensions:

H-8 Dia-3.2 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, Blood