Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.406
- Place of Origin:
- Kingston, NY
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Heneph Corporation, Kingston, NY. Vertical rectangular blue paperboard box, printed in white. Front: "HENEPH'S / PILLS / A DIURETIC STIMULANT / Tonic in action. / Quick in results. / THE HENEPH CORP., KINGSTON, N. Y. / Sole Distributors". Ingredients on back (blue on white). Left side: "This box contains / 60 Pills / PRICE 50 CENTS". Directions on right side. Box contains cylindrical clear glass bottle filled with spherical white pills; printed blue paper label on front, with text similar to that on box; cork stopper. Box also contains printed directions sheet.
- Material:
- Paper
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-3 W-1.7 D-1.4 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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