Pack

Object Name:

Pack

Object ID:

1992.063.489

Place of Origin:

Omaha, NE

Date:

1900-1930

Description:

Unopened pack of chewing gum, Pioneer Gum Company, Omaha, NE. Five sticks of gum in foil wrapper. White paper outer wrapper, printed in blue. Top: "SILVER CHIME / PEPSIN GUM. / A DELICIOUS / AID TO DIGESTION. / PIONEER GUM CO. / 5 PIECES. SOUTH OMAHA, NEB."; with image of bells ringing. Front and back: "PEPSIN GUM." Bottom: "THIS GUM IS MADE FROM THE BEST / MATERIAL AND IS A PURE AND SUPE- / RIOR ARTICLE. A SURE CURE FOR HEART- / BURN OR OTHER FORMS OF INDIGESTION."

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-0.35 W-0.8 L-3.1 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, Chewing gum