Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.407

Place of Origin:

Kingston, NY

Date:

1920-1940

Description:

Medicine in original box, Heneph Corporation, Kingston, NY. Vertical rectangular light blue paperboard box, printed in black. Front: "HENEPH'S / BLUE FLAG / LAXATIVE TABLET / FOR THE PREVENTION OF / APPENDICITIS AND / THE RELIEF OF / CONSTIPATION AND / ALL ITS ILL EFFECT / Manufactured and Distributed by / THE HENEPH CO., Inc. / KINGSTON, N. Y." Ingredients on back. Left side: "EACH PACKAGE CONTAINS / 80 TABLETS / PRICE 50 CENTS". Directions on right side. Box contains cylindrical clear glass bottle filled with round brown 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