Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.383

Place of Origin:

Lynn, MA

Date:

1940-1960

Description:

Medicine in original box, Pinkham Laboratories, Inc., Lynn, MA. Rectangular orange paperboard box, printed in dark brown. Front: "NEW PACKAGE / SANITARY-CONVENIENT / [oval image of Dr. Pfunder] / Pfunder's TABLETS / For relief of STOMACH DISTRESS / due to gastric hyperacidity / [ingredients] / 24 Tablets Distributed by PINKHAM LABORATORIES, INC. Lynn, Massachusetts Printed in U.S.A." Similar text on sides. Ends: "NONE GENUINE / WITHOUT THIS SIGNATURE: / F.H. Pfunder Ph.G. / Reg. U. S. Pat. Off." Directions on back of box. Contains 24 large round white pills in four unopened clear plastic wrappers; each wrapper imprinted "Pfunder's" multiple times in blue. Printed directions also enclosed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-1 W-2.5 L-6 Dia-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.)

People:

Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)

Subjects:

Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines, Pills