Label
- Title:
- Latin Pharmaceutical Labels
- Object Name:
- Label
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.582
- Creator:
- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; Ketterlinus, E.
- Place of Origin:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date:
- 1875-1900
- Description:
- Group of nine uncut sheets of printed paper labels for apothecary bottles, from a pharmacy. Titled "A Revised Edition of Latin Pharmaceutical Labels, Executed in Bronze". Each label has the Latin name of a drug. Dark blue on bronze color. Also two sheets with product information and directions, dated 1868. Published by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Printed by E. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.7 W-12 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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