Prescription Bottle: Benzyl Benzoate Solution, Irvington Pharmacy
notes: label: Description
content: Clear glass prescription bottle with a black plastic cap and a paper prescription label: [typed on label] Sol.Benzyl Benzoate / Benzyl Benzoate 1 oz / Powd.Castile Soap grs 12 / Alcohol 5 oz; [printed on label] IRVINGTON PHARMACY / PRESCRIPTIONS / FREDERICK & AUGUSTA AVES / PHONE GILMOR 3770 BALTIMORE, MD; [A small illustration of a showglobe with the letters "Rx" appears on the left of "IRVINGTON" with "REG. No. / 464" beneath].
label: Description
content: This object is part of a collection donated to the museum in 1989 by James P. Cragg, Jr. and Marie S. Cragg, owners of the Irvington Pharmacy located at 4123 Frederick Ave., Baltimore, Maryland. Pharmacist James P. Cragg, Jr., known as “Dr. Tim” to his customers, worked at the pharmacy from the 1940s until his retirement at the end of 1988. The business had been in the family since 1926 when Cragg's uncle, John F. Wannenwetsch, and pharmacist Walter Patterson purchased the old Knight & Andrews drugstore. In 1959 the Irvington Pharmacy became a Rexall franchise, and two large orange and blue Rexall signs were added to the art deco façade of the drugstore. The Cragg’s sold the store when Dr. Tim retired and one of the exterior signs along with several pharmaceutical products and drugstore labels were donated to the Smithsonian.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James P. Cragg, Jr. and Marie S. Cragg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0091.07
label: accession number
content: 1989.0091
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0091.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 14.605 cm x 6.0325 cm x 3.81 cm