Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.422
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1915-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original unopened box, Radway Company, New York, NY. Oval paperboard box, wrapped in tan paper, printed in red. Top: "RADWAY'S REGULATORS / 30 PILLS / RRR / [dosage] / RADWAY CO. INC. / NEW YORK / NEW AND IMPROVED FORM OF LABEL ADOPTED OCTOBER, 1913." Bottom: "PRICE 35 CENTS. / ALL GENUINE MUST BE SIGNED / Radway Co NEW YORK / RRR No. 3 / PROPRIETORS OF / READY RELIEF / Renovating Resolvent." Paper sealed; never opened.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.7 W-2 D-1.1 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, Pills
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