Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.433
- Place of Origin:
- Wheeling, WV
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Neuralgine Company, Wheeling, WV. Rectangular paperboard box, matchbox type, covered with gray paper, printed in red. Top: "NEURALGINE / NERVE TONIC / EFFICIENT REMEDY FOR / ACHES and PAINS / of every kind / PRICE 25 CENTS". Front: "Guaranteed under Pure Food and Drugs / Act, June 30, 1906. Guarantee No. 644. / This Package Adopted May 1, 1907." Back: "NEURALGINE / FOR HEADACHE, NEURALGIA / AND ALL KINDRED AILMENTS." Bottom: directions and "NEURALGINE CO., Wheeling, W.Va." Box contains round pink pills and printed paper sheet.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-0.6 W-1.35 L-2.1 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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