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DateApril 28, 1895
Terms
  • Pillboxes
  • Gilt
  • Paper
  • Pasteboard
  • Concord (Massachusetts)
Dimensions3.81 × 3.81 × 1.59 cm (1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 5/8 in.)
MarkingsLabel: "A piece of Shanty at Walden (missing?)/ Pencil Box - pasteboard/ Leads/ 13 Thoreau pencils/ From the Thoreau Collection/ of/ Alfred A. Hosmer/ Gift of Herbert B. Hosmer".
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Herbert B. Hosmer (1949)
Object numberTH106Q
DescriptionSquare pasteboard box and cover with light blue paper, gilt edging. " (printed logo) H.S. Richardson./ PHARMACIST./ CONCORD, MASS./ No. (hand written in ink) 18521/ (in pencil) for constipation/ (hand written in ink) One pill at/ bed. time./ (stamped) APR 28 1895." Small box contains fine leads made by John Thoreau & Sons.
Collections
  • Henry David Thoreau Collection
Object number: M2114
Late 1800s
Object number: 2010.12.1
H.S. Richardson
December 12, 1914
Object number: 2010.12.3
H.S. Richardson
ca. 1915
Object number: 2010.12.2
H.S. Richardson
ca. 1915
Object number: 2000.27
H.G. and Sons Wood
ca. 1910
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ca. 1838
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Mrs. Jacob Nichols
ca. 1887
Wilson's American Ornithology...
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Alexander Wilson
1853
Object number: 2007.4.5
Susan Dakin
1830-1877
Object number: M2089
Late 1800s