Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.388

Place of Origin:

Detroit, MI

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, Frederick Stearns Company, Detroit, MI. Rectangular tan paperboard box, printed in black. Top: "SHAC / FOR HEADACHE / [ingredients] / FREDERICK STEARNS COMPANY, DETROIT, MICH., U.S.A." Front: "SHAC' in red, and "NOTICE / The trademark SHAC is simply an abbreviation made by combining / the initial letters of the title Stearns' Head Ache Cure, under which name / this product was sold for many years / [additional trademark information] / New Style Box Adopted Nov. 1, 1898 - Title "SHAC" Adopted May 1, 1906 / 12 WAFERS". Directions on back. Bottom: "Stearns' / Head / Ache / Wafers / They / Relieve / Pain / Promptly / USED / WHEREVER / HEADS / ACHE". Uses and ingredient information on end flaps. Box contains three small unopened cube-shaped boxes, each printed in red and black on all sides with same text as on outer box. Each small box presumably contains four wafers. Outer box also contains printed sheet with advertisements for other Stearns products.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-1.4 W-1.2 L-3.4 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