Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.428
- Place of Origin:
- Cleveland, OH
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original unopened box, Peal Medicine Company, Cleveland, OH. Rectangular paperboard box, covered with yellow paper, printed in red. Top: "Sex-ine Pills / A POSITIVE CURE FOR / NERVOUS DEBILITY / LOSS OF MEMORY AND OTHER / CONSEQUENCES OF OVERWORK / OR OTHER EXCESSES." Front: "Sex-ine Pills / PRICE $1.00 SIX FOR $5.00 / PEAL MEDICINE CO., CLEVELAND, O." Guarantee printed on back. Unbroken printed paper seal on bottom: "This seal should not be broken / None genuine without our signature. / Peal Medicine Co."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.75 W-1.5 L-2.3 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
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