Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.452
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original unopened container, Hitchcock Company, New York, NY. Circular tin container with removable cover. Gold-colored exterior, printed in dark blue. Cover: "JAPOL ICE / TRADE MARK. / JAPOL / THE JAPANESE CURE / FOR ALL AILMENTS CAUSED / BY INFLAMMATION. / PRICE 25 CENTS. / THE HITCHCOCK CO. / NEW YORK, U.S.A." Similar text around side. Bottom: uses, directions, and "H. F. MILLER SON, TIN BOXES AND CANS, BALTO. MD." Container is sealed around edge with tape imprinted "JAPOL ICE 25 Cent Boxes".
- Material:
- Metal
Tin - Dimensions:
- H-0.75 Dia-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).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- People:
- Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines
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