Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.413

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, L. Brown, New York, NY. Horizontal rectangular white paperboard box, matchbox type, covered with tan paper printed in blue and red: "GLOBE PILLS / SUGAR / COATED / SUDDEN COLDS / FEVERS / CONSTIPATION / HEADACHE / AND / DISEASES / OF THE LIVER / DOSE FROM 2 TO 6 AT BED TIME / PRICE 25 CENTS. / NEW LABEL ADOPTED OCT.1.1883 / SUGAR COATED / GLOBE PILLS / L. BROWN / PROPRIETOR / 54 WARREN ST. N.Y. U.S.A. / THESE PILLS CONTAIN NO CALOMEL / AND ARE HARMLESS AT ALL TIMES / PUT UP IN GLASS TO / KEEP IN ALL CLIMATES."; images include a globe, a child in bed, and red flowers. Box contains cylindrical clear glass bottle filled with small white spherical pills; red and white paper label with text similar to that on box; cork stopper. Box also contains printed paper sheet with product information.

Material:

Paper
Glass

Dimensions:

H-0.9 W-0.9 L-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, Globes