Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.415

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original unopened box, Fairchild Brothers Foster, New York, NY. Rectangular paperboard box covered with yellow paper with red border. Paper label on cover, printed in black: "PEPTONISING TUBES / FAIRCHILD / For preparing PEPTONISED MILK and other pre- / digested foods by the 'Fairchild' Methods / The Contents of One Tube will Peptonise a Pint of Milk / Directions on inside cover of box / and on circular folded over the tubes. / Price, 50 cents per box, 1 doz. Tubes / Originated and made by / Fairchild Bros. Foster / NEW YORK". Brown paper seal, unbroken, printed on bottom, "PEPTONISING TUBES / FAIRCHILD".

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-0.9 W-3 D-2.3 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