Neat article about the original Bigelow pharmacy store in NYC. They have a collection of artifacts which includes old notebooks of recipes for medicines!
Established in 1838 by Dr. Galen Hunter, the store was originally called the Village Apothecary Shoppe. In 1880, Clarence Otis Bigelow purchased it and renamed it after himself, moving it 22 years later, two doors down, to Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street, where it stands today.
Mr. Ginsberg’s grandfather and his brother-in-law bought the drugstore in 1939. Over the last 180 years, the Ginsberg family has amassed more than 10,000 pharmaceutical and beauty items, including original prescription and recipe books from the 1800s; tablet rollers; old photographs; and mid-20th-century cosmetics packaging.
Over the last 180 years, the Ginsberg family has amassed more than 10,000 pharmaceutical and beauty items.
Read more: The Secrets Inside the C.O. Bigelow Apothecary (Est. 1838) – The New York Times