Finding Aid for the W.B. Clarke Apothecary prescription book Biomed.0233

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.

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Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 1.

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Title: W.B. Clarke Apothecary prescription book

Creator: Clarke, W.B. & Co.

Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0233

Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 copybook)

Date (inclusive): 1898-1899

Language of Material: English .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4895836

Scope and Contents

Collection contains a prescription copybook mostly for "W.B. Clarke, Apothecary, Stockbridge, Mass.", 1898-1899; some entries from "F.M. Pease, pharmacist, 14 Main Street, Lee, Mass.". Each page contains 8 or more duplicate prescriptions, on pharmacist's letterhead and completed in holograph, pasted in. Pages bound in "Winser's patent back prescription book number 6, manusfactured only by Winser and Dormitzer, druggists' label printers, 25 Beekman St., New York" (printed label on inner upper paste-down).