Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.411
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original unopened box, American Medical Preparations, Inc., New York, NY. Vertical cylindrical wooden container with white paper label wrapped around it, printed in blue and red. Front: "RED CROSS / [red cross trademark] / LAX-TABS / AMERICAN / MEDICAL PREPARATIONS / INC. / NEW YORK". Back: "SOLD SINCE 1894 / MILD AND EFFECTIVE - FOR / CONSTIPATION, AND BILIOUSNESS. / A PURE VEGETABLE COMPOUND / CONTAINS NO PHENOLPHTHALEIN / [directions] / PRICE 25 CENTS". Cover sealed by label; never opened.
- Material:
- Wood
Paper - Dimensions:
- H-2.3 Dia-0.8 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, Red Cross
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