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Drugs and druggists.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Abner Osburn, Physician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3313
Overview

Papers of Dr. Abner Osburn, a physician who practiced in Jefferson County, West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. The collection contains Civil War material, including a letter, currency, and a pass from Harpers Ferry. Other items include bonds for the purchase of slaves, programs from various collegiate events, certificates for the legal practice of medicine, correspondence, and other material. Please see "Scope and Content Note" for further information.

Dates: 1846-1901

G.H. Caperton, Pharmacy Formulary Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1649
Overview

Formulary or recipe book, of G.H. Caperton, a pharmacist at Fire Creek, Fayette County, West Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1865-1894

Holt Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0628
Overview

Papers of Samuel T.H. Holt, and other members of the Holt family of Philippi, West Virginia. There are deeds centering in Randolph, Barbour, and Tucker counties; correspondence; a medical prescription; and a clipping on Whitescarver Hall, Broaddus Institute, Philippi. Mention is made of the Wheeling Development Company.

Dates: 1887-1926

J. H. Kelley, Physicians' Accounts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2688
Overview

Four volumes titled "Physician's Visiting List," dated 1886, 1891, 1905, and 1906, for the Parkersburg, West Virginia, area. The 1891 copy contains a prescription written by J.H. Kelley, M.D. of Parkersburg, suggesting that all volumes were Kelley's. They contain numerous names, addresses, charges, and treatments, as well as other miscellaneous notes.

Dates: 1886, 1891, 1905-1906

Joseph E. Harned (1870-1931) Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1543
Overview

Correspondence of an Oakland, Maryland, pharmacist and original manuscript of his WILD FLOWERS OF THE ALLEGHENIES (1931).

Dates: undated

Lewis County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0062
Overview

Court cases, 1775-1933, and county record volumes and private account books of Lewis County, 1817-1932. The private accounts include records of a harness maker, millers, druggists, printers, and general merchants. A checklist of the bound volumes is available, as well as a chronological, subject, and name index to the suit papers.

Dates: 1775-1933

O.P. Sydenstricker Prescription Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1005
Overview

Three prescription books kept by O.P. Sydenstricker, Druggist and Apothecary, of Lewisburg, West Virginia.

Dates: 1884-1886; 1888-1889; 1893-1894

Southeastern West Virginia Historical Records, Civil War Letters and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2169
Overview Records relating to the history of southeastern West Virginia. Most of the items in the collection relate to Greenbrier and/or Monroe County. Includes antebellum (1833-1850; 7 items), Civil War (1861-1863; 4 items), and postbellum (1886-1933; 9 items) materials. Antebellum material includes a land suit, an estate report and schedule, other financial documents, and personal letter. Civil War material includes four letters authored by Confederate soldiers. Two of these letters describe the...
Dates: 1825-1933; Majority of material found in 1833-1863

United Mine Workers of America, Health and Retirement Funds, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2769
Scope and Contents The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) archives consists of the records of the first industry-wide pension and medical care plans for coal miners and their families in the United States. The archives comprise approximately 156 linear feet of records from the years 1946-1974, and include minutes, resolutions, correspondence, memos, reports, transcribed speeches, lawsuit documents, construction plans, contracts, statistical reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, microfilmed reading...
Dates: 1915-1989

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1455
Overview Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land...
Dates: 1743-1882