Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.434

Place of Origin:

Montreal, Quebec

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, Charles E. Frosst Company, Montreal, Quebec. Square tan paperboard box, printed in brown. Front: "ONE HALF OUNCE / DERMIOL / Frosst / A Compound ointment for all / eruptions and irritations of the skin, / containing Resorcin, Zinc Oxide, Ichthyol, Eucalyptol and Juniper / Tar with a Lanolin and Petrolatum / Base. / Charles E. Frosst Co. / MONTREAL - CANADA". Same text in French on back. Top: "DERMIOL" and circular logo with text, "Charles E. Frosst Co. / MANUFACTURING / CHEMISTS / MONTREAL". Uses and directions printed in English on left side, and in French on right side. Bottom: "Made in Canada". Box contains round white glass jar with brass-plated screw cap; printed paper label with text similar to that on box, in English and French. Removable corrugated cardboard box liner.

Material:

Paper
Glass
Metal

Dimensions:

H-1.6 W-2 D-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