Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.459

Place of Origin:

Burlington, VT

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Medicine in original box, Wells Richardson Company, Burlington, VT. Rectangular tin box with rounded corners, yellow exterior, and hinged cover. Printed in dark blue on cover: "NET COUNT 50 PILLS / WELLS RICHARDSON CO'S / Wills English Formula Pills / A COMPOUND / PURELY VEGETABLE / FOR BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION / AND LIVER COMPLAINT. / PREPARED FOR / WELLS RICHARDSON CO., Burlington, Vt., U.S.A. / PRICE 25 CENTS.", with trademark ("WILLS / ENGLISH / FORMULA / PILLS" in circle). Directions printed on bottom of box. Box contains spherical white pills and printed directions.

Material:

Metal
Tin

Dimensions:

H-0.5 W-2.6 D-1.5 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