Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.412
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Anglo-French Drug Company, New York, NY. Vertical rectangular white paperboard box, printed in brown. Front: "50 TABLETS / 'Opocrin' Brand / HEPVISC / [ingredients and dosage] / MADE IN FRANCE / BOTTLED IN U.S.A. / Anglo-French Drug Co. / (U. S. A.) Inc. / 1270 Broadway, N. Y." Sides and back: "HEPVISC". Box contains square clear glass bottle filled with round brown tablets; printed paper label on front with same text as box; metal screw cap.
- Material:
- Paper
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-2.8 W-1.3 D-1.3 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
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