Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.454
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Pheny O-Caffein Company, New York, NY. Rectangular tin box with rounded corners, green exterior, and hinged cover. Printed in black on cover: "PHENY O-CAFFEIN / THIRTY-CENT SIZE / Supplied Since 1888. / [ingredients and warning] / MANUFACTURED FOR / PHENY O-CAFFEIN COMPANY / NEW YORK, N.Y., U.S.A. CONTENTS 20 PILLS / REG. U. S. PAT. OFF." Uses and directions printed on bottom of box. Box contains 21 spherical white pills.
- Material:
- Metal
Tin - Dimensions:
- H-0.3 W-1.8 D-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, Pills
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