Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.403

Place of Origin:

Ithaca, NY

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, Booth's Hyomei Company, Ithaca, NY. Rectangular red and green paperboard box, printed on all sides. Front: "BOOTH'S / Mi-O-NA / CONTENTS 48 TABLETS / FOR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION ETC. / ARISING FROM ACIDITY." Back: "AT DRUGGISTS OR BY MAIL / TAKE ONE OR TWO / TABLETS AFTER MEALS / SEE FULL DIRECTIONS / ADDRESS / BOOTH'S HYOMEI CO. / ITHACA, N. Y. / TORONTO, ONT." Uses printed on left side. Other products listed on right side. "Mi-O-NA" printed on top and bottom flaps. Box contains tablets in paper wrappers, and printed directions sheet.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

W-1.5 L-3.1 D-1.5 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