Jar, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Jar, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.488
- Place of Origin:
- Bethel, VT
- Date:
- 1900-1930
- Description:
- Ointment in original jar, Mo' Hair Scalp Food Company, Bethel, VT. Short, cylindrical white glass jar with aluminum screw cap. Printed paper label on cover: "MO' HAIR SCALP FOOD / [directions] / Mo' Hair / Scalp Food Co., / Bethel, Vt." Black faux leather label on front of jar, stamped (impressed) "MO' HAIR SCALP FOOD." Embossed lettering on bottom of jar: "W.T. CO / 643 / A".
- Material:
- Glass
Metal
Aluminum - Dimensions:
- H-1 Dia-2.4 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, Hair preparations
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