Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.386

Place of Origin:

Springfield, MA

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, Frost Homoeopathic Remedy Co., Springfield, MA. Rectangular light yellow paperboard box, printed in black. Front: "DYSPEPSIA CURE. / Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Water Brash, Loss / of Appetite, and all Stomach Derangements. / PRICE, 25 CENTS." Left side: "DR. FROST'S / HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES, / PREPARED BY / Frost Homoeopathic Remedy Co., Springfield, Mass." Lists of Dr. Frost's other products on other two sides. Top flap: "THE NATIONAL FOLDING BOX / AND PAPER CO. / NEW HAVEN, CONN. / 2 / NEW YORK." Box contains cylindrical clear glass bottle containing small spherical white pills, full to top; printed paper label with text similar to that on box, as well as directions; cork stopper.

Material:

Paper
Glass

Dimensions:

H-3.1 W-0.8 D-0.8 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