Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.424
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Ripans Chemical Company, New York, NY. Rectangular tan paperboard box, printed in maroon. Front and back: "RIPANS / 10 TABULES; PRICE 10 CENTS". Right side: "Prepared for / THE RIPANS CHEMICAL COMPANY, / 578 Madison Ave., New York / [directions]". Uses printed on left side. Trademark printed on end flaps: "RIPANS / TABULES". Box contains cylindrical wooden container; printed paper label with text similar to that on box; sealed, never opened. Box also contains printed paper sheet.
- Material:
- Paper
Wood - Dimensions:
- W-0.75 L-2.4 D-0.75 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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