Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.373

Place of Origin:

Chicago, IL

Date:

1900-1920

Description:

Medicine in original box, Foley Company, Chicago, IL. Square white paperboard box, printed in red and blue on all sides. Front: "FOLEY'S / BANNER / SALVE / FOR PILES, / BURNS, SORES, / WOUNDS, BRUISES / 25�", on a banner held by a Civil War soldier; "M'F'D BY / F[OLEY] Co. / [CHI]CAGO." Back: "Banner Salve / HEALS AND CURES / [uses]". Top flap: "Banner Salve / HEALS AND CURES". Left side: "DIRECTIONS INSIDE FOR / BANNER SALVE / The Greatest Healing Remedy." Right side: "The great penetrating and / healing qualities of BANNER / SALVE make it an extraordi- / nary curative preparation." Bottom flap: "CURES / PILES". Printed directions folded around inner package; contents not examined.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-2.4 W-2.3 Dia-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