Box, Medicine

Object Name:

Box, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.486

Place of Origin:

Madison, WI

Date:

1905-1930

Description:

Herbal medicine in original unopened box, Hollister Drug Company, Madison, WI. Rectangular white paperboard box, printed in black. Top: "35� HOLLISTER'S 35� / ROCKY MOUNTAIN / STOMACH, KIDNEY AND LIVER / TEA / A DELICIOUS DRAUGHT FOR THE RELIEF CURE OF / CONSTIPATION, / COSTIVENESS, / HEADACHE, / DYSPEPSIA, / COUGHS, COLDS. / TORPID LIVER, CONGESTED KIDNEYS, / ACIDITY OF THE / STOMACH AND ALL / DISEASES OF THE / BLOOD SKIN. / IT PRODUCES A / FRESH BLOOMING / COMPLEXION. / MAKES YOU WELL. / KEEPS YOU WELL. / THE GREATEST / AMERICAN REMEDY. / HOLLISTER DRUG CO. / INCORPORATED / MADISON, WIS. / MADISON MEDICINE CO. / INCORPORATED 1882 / NEW PACKAGE ADOPTED JAN. 1, 1902 TO PROTECT THIS REMEDY AGAINST COUNTERFEITS. / TRADE MARK AND COPYRIGHT REGISTERED BY MADISON MEDICINE CO. APRIL 1, 1902."; with portrait of a man in circle. Product information printed on front and back. Left end: "KEEP DRY AND COOL. / To open Package cut the / Wrappers at this end." Right end: "Follow Directions carefully. / Directions in Foreign Languages / on Enclosed Circular." Directions printed on back. Flaps sealed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-1.7 W-3.2 L-5.3 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, Tea