Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.393
- Place of Origin:
- St. Louis, MO
- Date:
- circa 1910
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Sultan Drug Company, St. Louis, MO. Vertical rectangular green paperboard box. Red label on front, printed in black: "100 / CACTINA / PILLETS / HEART TONIC / Sultan Drug Co. / ST. LOUIS, U.S.A. / A preparation of the Mexi- / can Night Blooming Cereus / (Cereus Grandiflorus)". Box contains rectangular clear glass bottle filled with small spherical gray pills; printed red paper label around neck, "CACTINA PILLETS."; cork stopper sealed with paper on top ("SULTAN" in red). Box also contains printed directions sheet, dated 1906.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.3 W-1 D-0.7 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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