Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.390
- Place of Origin:
- Minneapolis, MN
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, H. W. Belden Chemical Company, Minneapolis, MN. Rectangular orange paperboard box, matchbox type, printed in black. Top: "HILL'S / CATHARTIC PILLS / (Discovered and used since 1835) / PRICE 25 CENTS PER BOX / DISTRIBUTED SOLELY BY / THE H.W. BELDEN CHEMICAL CO., MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA / Original Formula of O. A. Hill, Portland, Maine". Guarantee printed on front, with reference to the Food and Drugs Act of 1906. Trademark on bottom, "HILL'S CATHARTIC PILLS" around five-pointed star in circle. Box contains pills (deteriorated) and printed directions.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.6 W-1.2 L-2.2 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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