Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.444

Place of Origin:

Boston, MA

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, W. F. Smith Company, Boston, MA. Rectangular white paperboard box, matchbox type, printed in blue on top: "Smith's / Triple / Cure / FOR / CATARRH / DYSPEPSIA / BLOOD / Price 50 / CENTS / W.F. SMITH CO., BOSTON, MASS.", with image of Dr. Smith. Box contains four tin boxes, all full, each with different text: two rectangular boxes, one for Triple Cure Tablets and one for Triple Cure Pills; one smaller rectangular box of Triple Cure Tablets; and one circular box of Catarrh Cream, wrapped in wax paper, unopened. Each rectangular box has a printed circular in it.

Material:

Paper
Metal
Tin

Dimensions:

H-0.75 W-5.2 D-3 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, Pills