Bottle, Medicine

Object Name:

Bottle, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.366

Place of Origin:

Orangeburg, NY

Date:

1965-1970

Description:

Medicine bottle in original box, Hollings-Smith Company, Orangeburg, NY.

A. Bottle. Clear glass. Rectangular body with deeply beveled corners, steeply sloped shoulders, and short cylindrical neck. White paper label on front, printed in red and black: "FOUR FLUID OUNCES / BELL'S / SYRUP / (CODEINE COMPOUND) / FOR COUGHS / DUE TO COLDS / [ingredients, warning, and dose] / Hollings-Smith Co. / Manufacturing Chemists / Orangeburg, New York, U. S. A." White metal screw cap. Embossed lettering on bottom of bottle. Bottle contains thick brown liquid, full.

B. White cardboard box, 6" high x 2" wide x 2" deep. Printed on front and back in orange and black, same text as on bottle, and "A / PALATABLE / AND EXTREMELY / PROMPT, EFFICIENT / AND RELIABLE / SEDATIVE AND / EXPECTORANT / PRICE $1.49". Printed in orange on sides: "SYRUP. CODEINE COMPOUND (Bell)". Printed sheet inside, which includes Orangeburg zip code, 10962.

Material:

Glass
Paper

Dimensions:

H-5.5 W-2.2 D-1.1 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, Coughing