Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.416
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Company, New York, NY. Vertical rectangular brown paperboard box, printed in black. Front: "HUMPHREYS' / HOMEOPATHIC / NO 33 / SPASMS CONVULSIONS / F. Humphreys M.D. / HUMPHREYS' HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE CO. / New York"; with image of woman and lion. List of Humphreys' remedies printed on back. Left side: "Directions inside this Carton in Six Languages / English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian". Ingredients and dosage printed on right side. Box is full; contents not examined.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3.5 W-2.1 D-0.9 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, Lions
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