Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.414
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Fairchild Brothers Foster, New York, NY. Vertical rectangular pale yellow paperboard box, matchbox type, with printed paper label on front: "50 / 'PEPULE' / PEPSIN, BISMUTH / AND / NUX VOMICA / [ingredients] / ORIGINATED AND MADE SOLELY BY / Fairchild Bros. Foster / NEW YORK". Box contains square clear glass bottle filled with round white tablets; printed paper label on front with same text as on box; cork stopper.
- Material:
- Paper
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-4.1 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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