Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.392
- Place of Origin:
- St. Louis, MO
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original unopened box, Sultan Drug Company, St. Louis, MO. Square purple paperboard box covered with multicolored paper in floral pattern, with text printed in black. Top: "36 / PRUNOIDS / AN IDEAL / LAXATIVE, PURGATIVE, / AND INTESTINAL TONIC. / MADE BY / SULTAN / DRUG CO. / ST. LOUIS, MO., / U.S.A. / PRICE 50C". Paper is sealed, with a string to tear it open. "RECOMMENDED BY PHYSICIANS" printed on one end, and ingredients (including prunes) on other end. Uses printed on back.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.4 W-3 L-3 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, Prunes
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