Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.374

Place of Origin:

Indianapolis, IN

Date:

1900-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, Eli Lilly Company, Indianapolis, IN. Thin, rectangular paperboard box, slipcase type, with green textured paper covering. Yellow paper label on front, printed in red: "POISON / 100 / Hypodermic Tablets / No. 236 / In Tubes of 20 / STRYCHNINE / SULPHATE / 1-40 Grain / (0.0016 Gm.) / Lilly / ELI LILLY COMPANY / INDIANAPOLIS, U.S.A." Yellow label on top of cover with similar text. Contains three glass tubes, each with 20 tablets, and each labeled with same text as on box; cork stoppers. Two tubes absent.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-3.25 W-1.7 D-0.45 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, Poisons