Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.436

Place of Origin:

England

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original unopened container, Dr. John Hooper, England. Printed tan paper wrapped around an unexamined container, probably an oval wooden box. Paper imprinted (in part), "DOCTO[R HOOP]ER'S / FEMAL[E] PILLS / [Published by] Virtue of th[e King's] Royal L[etters Patent]". Paper seal wrapped around package, imprinted "INLAND / NO GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE / VALUE 1s / AND UNDER / DUTY THRE[E HA]LF-PENCE". Separate smaller printed paper label adhered on top of seal: "GREAT BRITAIN". Box contains pills.

Material:

Paper
Wood

Dimensions:

H-0.8 W-1.2 L-2.8 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).

John Hooper was an apothecary in Reading, England.

Credit Line:

Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood

People:

Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)

Subjects:

Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines, Pills