Bottle, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.357
- Place of Origin:
- St. Louis, MO
- Date:
- 1900-1920
- Description:
- Medicine bottle in original paper wrapper, Katharmon Chemical Company, St. Louis, MO. Wrapper sealed; not opened to examine bottle. Rectangular glass bottle with round corners and shoulders, containing liquid, full. Brown paper wrapper with applied printed paper label on front: "ONE PINT / HAGEE'S / ORIGINAL / Cordial / COMPOUND / ALCOHOL 8 PER CENT / APPETIZER, / STOMACHIC, / STIMULANT TO / THE APPETITE, / PALATABLE. / [ingredients and dosage] / Prepared only by / Katharmon Chemical Co. / St. Louis, Mo., U. S. A. 31".
- Material:
- Glass
Paper - Dimensions:
- H-8.3 W-3.3 D-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
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