Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.369

Place of Origin:

Bridgeport, CT

Date:

circa 1900

Description:

Medicine in original box, Sawyer Medicine Company, Bridgeport, CT. Rectangular white paperboard box, two-piece matchbox type. Black printing on top: "SAWYER'S / SICK HEADACHE / POWDERS / [uses] / PRICE 25 CENTS", with image of "THREE FURIES." On front: "FULL DIRECTIONS INSIDE / Address all Orders to / SAWYER MEDICINE COMPANY / BRIDGEPORT, CONN." On back: "Prepared only by / ANDREW SAWYER, / Pharmaceutical Chemist, / BRIDGEPORT, CONN, formerly TROY, N.Y. / Sent by mail if desired". Bottom: trademark (circular saw blade and "YER") and "CUTS OFF ATTACKS / Registered in the United States / Patent Office in the year 1885." Contains unopened packets of powder and printed directions.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-0.7 W-2.35 D-1.3 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