Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.425
- Place of Origin:
- Rochester, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original unopened box, Warner's Safe Cure Company, Rochester, NY. Cylindrical paperboard box, covered with tan paper, printed in black: "WARNER'S / 30 PILLS / SAFE PILLS / SUGAR / COATED / PRICE 25 CTS. / FOR / CONSTIPATION, BILIOUSNESS / AND / TORPID LIVER. / A GENTLE AND EFFICIENT LAXATIVE / [directions] / PRICE 25 CENTS / Warner's Safe Remedies Co. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S.A. / LONDON, / ENG. / TORONTO, / CAN."; with image of a safe marked "WARNER'S / SAFE / REMEDIES". Printed circular paper seal on each end: "WARNERS SAFE CURE CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- L-2.5 Dia-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, Pills, Safes
Electronic Resources are only available to New Hampshire Historical Society members. To access electronic resources, please join the New Hampshire Historical Society.