Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.380

Place of Origin:

Boston, MA

Date:

1910-1920

Description:

Medicine in original paper wrapper, Potter Drug Chemical Corporation, Boston, MA. Vertical container, oval in cross-section. Black paper wrapper printed in orange. On front: "Cuticura / PILLS / CHOCOLATE COATED / A GENTLE ALTERA- / TIVE, TONIC, DIGESTIVE, / AND APERIENT FOR / USE IN THE TREAT- / MENT OF SKIN AND / SCALP AFFECTIONS / AND FOR PROMOTING / THE GENERAL HEALTH. / PRICE 25 CENTS / MANUFACTURED IN U.S.A. / DISTRIBUTED BY / POTTER DRUG CHEMICAL CORP. / SOLE PROPS BOSTON USA". On back: "CUTICURA / REMEDIES / [uses] / GUARANTEED BY POTTER / DRUG CHEMICAL CORP. / UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUGS / ACT, JUNE 30, 1906. No. 344." On each side: "Cuticura Pills". Company logo ("PDC CORP") on top and bottom folds. Unopened.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-2.2 W-1.4 D-0.9 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, Pills