Dispenser, Beverage
- Object Name:
- Dispenser, Beverage
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.507
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Soft drink dispenser, from a soda fountain. Tall glass cylinder held in metal frame on heavy metal base. Glass is embossed "WHEN / IN DOUBT / DRINK / MINER'S / FRUIT / NECTAR". Porcelain disk on base, with green glaze and lettering, "MINER'S / Fruit Nectar / 5�". Supporting frame consists of three vertical steel rods. Spigot on one side.
- Material:
- Metal
Glass
Ceramic
Porcelain - Dimensions:
- H-26 Dia-7.1 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, Soft drinks
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