Dispenser, Beverage
- Object Name:
- Dispenser, Beverage
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.505
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Hot soda dispenser, from a soda fountain. Plated metal. Tall cylindrical tank with pierced decoration on bottom section. Shelf for bottles around perimeter, with decorative pierced rim. Removable cover with red glass disk on top, in ornate circular metal frame; glass has etched white lettering: "HOT / SODA". Spigot and glass tube on one side; small vertical cylindrical tank and tube on other side.
- Material:
- Metal
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-41.5 W-20 Dia-16 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a group of soda fountain furnishings and equipment, 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
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Drugstores, Soda fountains, Soda water, Soft drinks
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