Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.409
- Place of Origin:
- LeRoy, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original wrapper, Dr. Wagner Kemp, LeRoy, NY. Horizontal cylindrical roll wrapped in green paper, printed in black: "KEMP'S / LIVER PILLS / A PURELY VEGETABLE COMPOUND / MANUF'D AT LEROY, N.Y. U.S.A. / AFTER A PRESCRIPTION BY / DR. WAGNER KEMP. / FOR TORPID LIVER, FOR / BILIOUSNESS, FOR CONSTIPATION, / FOR HEADACHE, AND FOR ALL / DISORDERS OF THE BLOOD. / USE / CAUTION / WHEN / PURCHASING. / BE SURE / THEY ARE / ENCLOSED IN A / GREEN WRAPPER / ON WHICH THE / SIGNATURE OF / Orator F. Woodward IS INSCRIBED / LEADLEY ROCH N.Y."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- L-3.2 Dia-0.7 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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