Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.577
- Place of Origin:
- Indianapolis, IN
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Eli Lilly Company, Indianapolis, IN. Yellow tablets in five glass tubes, contained in rectangular green paperboard box with removable cover. Printed paper label on front of box: "100 / Hypodermic Tablets / No. 26 / in Tubes of 20 / CAFFEINE AND / SODIUM BENZOATE / 1 Grain / (0.065 Gm.) / Dissolve in Warm Water / Lilly / ELI LILLY COMPANY / INDIANAPOLIS, U.S.A."
- Material:
- Paper
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-3.9 W-1.9 D-0.5 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
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Drugstores, Medicines
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