Stein
- Object Name:
- Stein
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.529
- Date:
- 1950-1960
- Description:
- Soda fountain stein. Tan stoneware with blue and brown relief decoration. Cylindrical body, slightly conical. Semicircular handle. Wide blue band around body, with relief bust of Dr. Swett on brown background. Below bust: "Dr. SWETT'S / ORIGINAL ROOT BEER". Floral decoration on remainder of blue area. Impressed numbers on deeply recessed bottom: "6113" and "2".
- Material:
- Ceramic
Stoneware - Dimensions:
- H-5.9 W-4.5 Dia-3.6 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
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