Bottle, Medicine

Object Name:

Bottle, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.255

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

circa 1920

Description:

Medicine bottle, Zema-Cura Company, New York, NY. Green-tinted glass. Rectangular body with beveled corners, round shoulders, and long cylindrical neck. Printed paper label on front: " 'WHERE IT TOUCHES IT HEALS' / ZEMA-CURA / TRADE MARK REGISTERED / A POSITIVE CURE FOR / ECZEMA, SALTRHEUM, / TETTER, HERPES, ACNE, / [more uses, contents, and directions] / PRICE, 50 CENTS / MANUFACTURED ONLY BY / THE ZEMA-CURA CO. / 1007 Union Ave., New York."; with image of woman in lily flower. Directions printed on paper label on back. Number "3089" embossed on bottom. Cork stopper. Dried residue of brown liquid in bottom.

Material:

Glass

Dimensions:

H-5.9 W-2.1 D-1 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