Bottle, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.316
- Place of Origin:
- St. Louis, MO
- Date:
- circa 1965
- Description:
- Medicine bottle, Rexall Drug Company, St. Louis, MO. Amber glass. Body is oval in cross section and has sloped, ribbed shoulders. Printed paper label on front: "Rexall / MINERALIZED / B Complex / WITH / VITAMIN B12 / LIVER, IRON AND VITAMIN C / [information and directions] / 100 TABLETS". Printed paper label on back: "[ingredients] / REXALL DRUG CHEMICAL CO. / Los Angeles 90054 St. Louis 63115 / Printed in U.S.A." White metal screw cap. Embossed numbers on bottom of bottle. Bottle contains large white tablets, full.
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-4.8 W-2.3 D-1.4 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, Vitamins
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