Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.474

Place of Origin:

Mount Morris, NY

Date:

1900

Description:

Herbal medicine in original unopened box, John F. Bauer Company, Mount Morris, NY. Rectangular white paperboard box, printed in purple. Top: "DR. RAND'S / FAMILY REMEDY. / A CERTAIN CURE / FOR ALL NERVE, / BLOOD, LIVER AND / KIDNEY DISEASES / A COMBINATION / OF ROOTS, HERBS, PERUVIAN BARK / AND CELERY. / PRICE 50 CENTS."; with "THE JFB Co" monogram in gold circle. Front: "Dr. Rand's Family Remedy / CURES CONSTIPATION, SICK HEADACHE / DIZZINESS, / DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION and / all SKIN ERUPTIONS. It Purifies the Blood." Back: "Dr. Rand's Family Medicine / PRODUCES A CLEAR, SMOOTH, PEARLY / COMPLEXION. / Prepared by The JOHN F. BAUER Co., Mt. Morris, N. Y." Directions printed on bottom of box. "THE JFB Co." monogram printed on ends of box. Flaps sealed. Left flap also sealed by a tax stamp dated Feb. 25, 1900.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-1.8 W-4.8 D-3.3 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, Herbs, Medicinal, Celery