Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.426

Place of Origin:

Cincinnati, OH

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, Dr. W. S. Burkhart, Cincinnati, OH. Rectangular white paperboard box, printed in blue. Top: "SIX MONTHS' TREATMENT / FOR ONE DOLLAR / Dr. Burkhart's / VEGETABLE / COMPOUND / THE GREATEST BLOOD PURIFIER EVER DISCOVERED / MANUFACTURED BY / DR. W.S. BURKHART CINCINNATI, O."; with oval image of Dr. Burkhart. Uses printed on front, covered by added label: "Dr. W. S. Burkhart. / No. 802. Guaranteed / under the FOOD / and DRUGS ACT, / June 30, 1906." Back: "DR. W. S. BURKHART, / 121 E. Seventh St., / CINCINNATI, OHIO / Registered Trade Mark, February, 1898." Directions printed on bottom, and "PRICE, 25 CENTS." Box full of round white pills.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-0.6 W-1 L-2 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