Bandage

Object Name:

Bandage

Object ID:

1992.063.442

Place of Origin:

Boston, MA

Date:

1900-1930

Description:

Plaster (bandage) in original box, Abbott's Menthol Plaster Company, Boston, MA. Horizontal cylindrical tin container with yellow exterior. Printed in black: "PATENTED APRIL 14TH 1885 / ABBOTT'S / MENTHOL PLASTER / A WONDERFUL PLASTER / RECOMMENDED FOR / NERVE DISORDERS / SEVERE ACHES / PAINS STITCHES / BACKACHE / RECOMMENDED FOR / RHEUMATISM / NEURALGIA / PLEURISY / HEADACHE / Prepared only by the / ABBOTT'S MENTHOL PLASTER COMPANY. / BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. / EVERY PLASTER IN A SINGLE AIR TIGHT BOX. / BURDICK SON, ALBANY, N.Y." Removable metal cap. Box contains plaster wrapped in paper.

Material:

Metal
Tin

Dimensions:

L-6.2 Dia-1.35 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).

Credit Line:

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

People:

Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)

Subjects:

Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines, Bandages