Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.389
- Place of Origin:
- Kalamazoo, MI
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo MI. Vertical rectangular tan paperboard box, printed in black. Front: "THE ORIGINATORS OF / FRIABLE PILLS / 100 Pills / Coated Red / Hematic Tonic / (Upjohn) / [ingredients] / The Upjohn Company / Originators of Friable Pills / Kalamazoo, Mich." Product information on other three sides. Box contains rectangular clear glass bottle filled with spherical round pills; printed paper label on front, with same text as on front of box; cork stopper.
- Material:
- Paper
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-3.9 W-1.7 D-1.1 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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