Subject: Pharmacy

Billhead from Rosengarten & Sons, a manufacturing chemist, located in Philadelphia. The billhead is dated February 14, 1878, and includes a list of items purchased by Glover Warner & Clark of Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The billhead features an ornate, cursive script for the business name and the buyer. The header section is framed, with a note that the business is represented by Charles H. Rutherford, at 26 Liberty Street, New York. The billhead also includes the phrase, “Terms: Net Cash.”

A rare open pontil California gold rush medicine bottle, circa 1850s. The bottle is aqua-colored, 4 1/2" tall, and 2" wide at the base. It features an inward-rolled top and an open pontil base. The front panel is embossed with "Compound Fluid Extract Of Manzanita, Drs McDonald & Levy.. Sacramento City, California." Richard Hays McDonald established a drug store in Sacramento in 1849, later partnering with Levy to create a traveling drug store wagon servicing placer mining areas. By 1853, "The Miners Drug Store" was well-known. Levy later opened a store in San Francisco. This bottle may be related to the Levy ledger book also in this collection.

A glass medicine bottle from the pharmacy of John B. Cohen, located at 132 East Gay Street in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The bottle features a lead stopper and is circa 1885.

Two-volume book, "The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics," second London edition and first American edition, published by Lea & Blanchard in Philadelphia. Volume I contains 714 pages, 16 pages of advertisements, 100 wood cuts, and xliv preface pages. Volume II contains 852 pages. Published in the USA in the 1860s. Authored by Jonathan Pereira, M.D. (1804-1853).

This trade card advertises Isaac M. Seltzer's drugstore located at the corner of Clark and 403 Hudson Street, New York. The front of the card features a cluster of grapes hanging from a branch, showcasing the variety of products that Seltzer sold. The card's back provides a full advertisement for a cholera remedy.