Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.384
- Place of Origin:
- Lynn, MA
- Date:
- 1963-1970
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, MA. Rectangular pink paperboard box (front is white), printed in black. Front and back: [image and signature of Lydia Pinkham] / LYDIA E. / PINKHAM / TABLETS / [uses] / 72 TABLETS". Left side: "[ingredients] / LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. / LYNN, MASS. U.S.A. 01904". Top and bottom: "LYDIA E. / PINKHAM / TABLETS". Directions on right side. Contains unopened brown glass bottle full of round brown pills; pink metal screw cap; printed paper label on front of bottle, with text similar to that on box.
- Material:
- Paper
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-3.6 W-1.7 D-1.2 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
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