Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.370
- Place of Origin:
- Chicago, IL
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Byron Field Company, Chicago, IL. Rectangular paperboard box covered with pink paper, printed in black on top: "PROF FIELD'S / ANTI BILIOUS WORM POWDERS / PRICE, 25 Cents.", with trademark image of balance, mortar, pestle, and two jars. Directions in English on front and in German on back. On bottom: "TO OPEN BOX - Cut around edges at each end / PREPARED ONLY BY / BYRON FIELD CO., CHICAGO, ILL.", with two images of worms, identified as "PIN WORMS." Paper sealed, never opened.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.8 W-2.35 D-1.6 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, Worms, Mortar and pestle
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