Collection Highlights
The Peale Family
Date:
1773-1809
Object Number:
1867.298
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Medicine
Object Number:
2002.1.2485
Date:
1922-1940
Medium:
Paper, wood
Dimensions:
3 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. diameter
Description:
This wooden canister has a paper label and once contained Cold Tablets. The label reads, in part, "Pape's Cold Compound/ Each Ounce Contains 55 grains Acetanilide/ Follow the same Directions Always for/ Colds, Grippe, Headache, Neuralgia/ Pape, Thompson and Pape Co./ Sterling Products Successor/ Wheeling, W.VA./ Price 35 Cents."
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
