Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.400

Place of Origin:

Buffalo, NY

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original unopened box, Dr. Agnew's Ointment, Buffalo, NY. Square paperboard box covered with red paper, printed in black. Front: "Dr. Agnew's / OINTMENT / RELIEVES IN ONE DAY AND CURES / Piles, Tetter, Salt Rheum, / Scald Head, Eczema, / Barbers' Itch / Ulcers / Blotches. / Ring Worms and all / Roughness, Eruptions defects / of the Skin. / PRICE 35 CENTS. / S. G. DETCHON, Agent, / BUFFALO, N. Y. TORONTO, CAN." Back: "DR. AGNEW'S / OINTMENT / INSTANTLY ALLAYS those / Creeping, Crawling, / Stinging, Burning / Sensations which / Combine to make up the tortures / of any itching or disfiguring / Skin Disease." Additional text on sides. One side has tax stamp.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-1.1 W-2.2 D-2.1 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