Bottle, Medicine

Object Name:

Bottle, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.254

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

circa 1900

Description:

Medicine bottle, Mosquera-Julia Food Company, New York, NY. Brown glass. Square body with downward tapering sides, rounded corners and shoulders, and long cylindrical neck. Printed paper label on front, green and brown on white: "MOSQUERA / FLUID / BEEF JELLY. / A CONCENTRATED AND / MOST PALATABLE / BOUILLON / REPRESENTING THE / NOURISHING PRINCIPLES OF / PRIME LEAN BEEF / MANUFACTURED BY THE / MOSQUERA- / JULIA / FOOD CO. / NEW YORK / DETROIT, MICH. / U.S.A." Diagonal printed paper label on neck: "Parke Davis Co. / DETROIT, MICH. NEW YORK CITY / SOLE AGENTS". Directions printed on paper label on back. Cork stopper with printed paper label on top: "MOSQUERA-JULIA / FOOD CO. / NEW YORK / AND / DETROIT". Bottle contains liquid, almost full to neck.

Material:

Glass

Dimensions:

H-4.3 W-1.5 D-1.5 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