Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.431
- Place of Origin:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, John Wyeth Brother, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. Oval paperboard box covered with yellow paper. Printed paper label on front: "COMPRESSED PILL / Cascara Comp., No. 3 (Dr. Hinckle) / [ingredients] / MANUFACTURED BY / JOHN WYETH BROTHER, Inc., / PHILADELPHIA." Box contains sealed oval clear glass bottle with label identical to that on box; embossed lettering on back of bottle, "JOHN WYETH BRO / PHILA"; cork stopper with black wax seal on top, embossed "JOHN WYETH BRO. / INC. / PHILA"; secured with string. Bottle contains small round brown pills.
- Material:
- Paper
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-2.7 W-1.2 D-0.9 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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