Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.485

Place of Origin:

Philadelphia, PA

Date:

1880-1900

Description:

Medicine in original unopened box, Johnston, Holloway & Company, Philadelphia, PA. Rectangular paperboard box, covered with paper, printed in black. Front: "HOLLOWAY'S / Vegetable Vermifuge / CONFECTIONS / The most pleasant & effectual / Wormspecific ever discovered", with image of three children around their mother, who is holding a large pill. Left side: "JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY & CO. / MANUFACTURERS / 6th & Commerce Sts. Philadelphia." Right side: "This is a remedy that no child will refuse but / rather crave as it possesses none of those / nauseous ingredients of which other Worm / Medicines are composed." Top: "PRICE / 25 CENTS / A BOX." Bottom: "Directions inside. / KEEP DRY." Back: "None Genuine without the Signature of / Johnston Holloway Co / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856. / by JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY & COWDEN, / in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the eastern District of Pa. / Trade Mark Registered in Patent Office, Washington, August 7th, 1877." Paper sealed at ends.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-3.5 W-2.25 D-1.2 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, Worm medicines, Confections