Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.397
- Place of Origin:
- Morristown, NJ
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original package, W. H. Comstock Company, Morristown, NJ. Oval yellow tin container with printed paper wrapper: "DR. MORSE'S / INDIAN ROOT / PILLS / SUGAR COATED / W.H. COMSTOCK CO. LTD MORRISTOWN, N.J. / SOLE PROPRIETOR / Wm. H. Comstock / PRICE 25 CENTS", with image of an Indian on horseback.
- Material:
- Paper
Metal
Tin - Dimensions:
- H-0.8 W-1.2 L-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.)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines, Indian man, Native Americans, Horses, Pills
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