Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.482

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

1910-1930

Description:

Herbal medicine in original unopened box, S. B. Penick Company, New York, NY. Square gray paperboard box, printed in black and blue. Front: "Initial Line / LOOSE PRESSED / SWEET FERN / (Comptonia Peregrina) / NET WEIGHT ONE OUNCE / S.B. PENICK CO., INC. / CRUDE DRUGS / NEW YORK, N.Y., U.S.A. / ASHEVILLE, N.C. CHICAGO, ILL. / JERSEY CITY, N. J. / 'The Initial Source of Supply' ". Top: "SYNONYM - Sweet Bush / PART USED - Leaves / FAMILY - Myricaceae / HABITAT - North America". "SBP Co." monogram on sides. Back: "INITIAL LINE". Flaps sealed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-2.7 W-2.8 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, Herbs, Medicinal