Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.385
- Place of Origin:
- North Andover, MA
- Date:
- 1930-1950
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Persicoon Laboratories, North Andover, MA. Rectangular beige paperboard box, printed in black and red. Front: "PERSICOON / [image of knight in octagon] / ALABASTER / POWDER / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off., Ser. No. 340964 / For Wounds / and Skin Diseases / CONTENTS HALF AN OUNCE". Uses printed on other three sides. On left side and back: "PERSICOON LABORATORIES / NO. ANDOVER, MASS." On top: "PERSICOON / ALABASTER / POWDER". Box contains unopened black metal cylindrical can with printed text similar to that on box. Printed directions also enclosed.
- Material:
- Paper
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-2.3 W-1.5 D-1.5 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
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