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Volunteers with Clemson Hope play with children in the James M. Brown Elementary school in Walhalla, S.C. after presenting them with Christmas gifts, Dec. 8, 2017. Clemson Hope collected more than 1,100 gifts over the course of two months to give to local school children in Title 1 elementary schools. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The 2017 Solar Eclipse can be seen through the clouds on the Clemson Unviversity campus, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Janet Bean and Ron Grant, aka Anna Calhoun and Thomas Green Clemson, chat in the foyer of Clemson University’s R.M. Cooper Library, Nov. 6, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson takes photos with admirers after defending his dissertation in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album titled “Owning my Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions” as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Benjamin McCall’s mother and sister pin on his rank during his commissioning ceremony, Dec. 20, 2017. Clemson University's Army and Air Force Reserve Officer's Training Corps units held a joint commissioning ceremony in the Tillman Hall auditorium. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen B. Owens, director of the joint staff, South Carolina National Guard, was the featured speaker. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The British horror movie tells the fictionalized story of Matthew Hopkins, the most famous real-life witchfinder general. It featured so many torture and violence scenes that it had to be heavily censored by the British Board of Film Censors and was still considered by many critics unacceptably gruesome. In the U.S., however, it was shown virtually uncensored and proved to be a box office success.
The second floor contains HSL’s magnificent Austin Flint Main Reading Room, as well as our collection of printed books. Several computer stations are also located just off the elevator.
During renovation of Abbott Hall from 1983-85, care was taken to preserve the Reading Room so it currently appears much as it was when first built. The design was modeled from a room in Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, built in the first decade of the 17th century for Sir Robert and William Cecil, Earls of Salisbury.
The oak fireplace mantel is hand-carved and modeled after a 15th Century mantel found in Canonbury Tower, London, England.
The woodwork is not signed, but was carved by the Lipsett brothers, immigrants from Germany who worked for the Kittinger Company, a famous Buffalo institution who produced furniture for the White House. The company still practices its craft in the area.
Both chandeliers were salvaged from the John J. Albright’s Tudor mansion (also built by E.B. Green), which was under demolition during construction of the original Lockwood building in the 1930s.
Two Clemson University Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets practice a combat sling carrying technique during a community outreach training day on the Clemson campus, March 16, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association stack care packages in the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Apothecary Museum
In 1993, our turn-of-the-century apothecary was created to complement the school’s museum, further illustrating the evolution of the field of pharmacy in the US from the late 1700s to the mid-1900s. The Apothecary also serves to preserve various pharmaceutical artifacts from Western New York and its surrounding areas—many of these items were donated by alumni
Apothecary and Historical Exhibits
As part of the first and oldest public school of pharmacy in New York State, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Museum of the University at Buffalo is an important component of education not only for the school’s students, but also for alumni, the Western New York community, and visitors from throughout the world who have an interest in the earlier methods of pharmaceutical care.
History
The Museum was created in 1986 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the school. In 1993, a turn-of-the-century “apothecary” was created to adjoin the museum and further illustrate the practice of pharmacy in the U.S., focusing on the period between the late 1700s until the mid-1900s. This education continues as the museum and is further opened to the public through a series of displays throughout the school.
The Apothecary and Exhibits also serve to preserve various artifacts from the history of pharmacy and the practice of medicine in Western New York and the surrounding areas. These actions also support the effort to promote the field of pharmacy in the provision of health care.
Collection
The focus of the Apothecary and Historical Exhibits highlights pharmaceutical care, primarily, but not limited to, Western New York. Unique items which will provide education in this area are sought, particularly those which possess meaning to the history of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University at Buffalo and/or its alumni. Additional artifacts may be added based upon their relationship to the existing collection.
Reference
University and school historical reference questions are welcome, and should be addressed to the Apothecary Exhibits Director.
Celebrating 25 Years
In 1993, our Apothecary was opened to provide visitors with the immersive experience of an early 1900s pharmacy.
Contact Us
Apothecary and Historical Exhibits
Cindy Konovitz
Assistant Dean and Director
160 Pharmacy Building
716-645-3002
Individual and small group tours are available. We also can provide half-day educational tour sessions for classes and youth groups in conjunction with the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection in the University at Buffalo’s Health Sciences Library and other health science museums and exhibits on campus.
Historical Exhibits
The Apothecary, as well as the Historical Exhibits throughout the school display a wide range of products which were used to treat a variety of illnesses. In the front of the Apothecary, a revolving piece focusing on a health awareness area is also presented.
Prohibition Products
The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution had an effect on some medicinal products, including what is now known as “patent medicine.” One of the more popular items of this exhibit is a non-refillable National Prohibition Act Prescription Blank on which a physician could use to prescribe alcohol.
Tax Collection Stamp
A special tax stamp issued by the US Internal Revenue Service and purchased by a pharmacy to participate in the retail sales of products containing opium, coca leaves and related ingredients. The stamp was required to be displayed for all to see in the facility.
Medicine Creation Display
Set up on an actual working bench from an early 1900s pharmacy, the medicine creation display contains a variety of tools including a ledger from the late 1800s, a pill roller, tiles and spatulas, a pill coater, pill finishers, suppository molds and presses, emulsifiers, and cutters used in creating medicines prior to the period of mass manufacturing.
Wolfish Container Collection
A member of the Pharmacy Class of 1958, Maurice Wolfish was an avid collector of pharmacy memorabilia. Upon his death, his family donated his compilation to the Apothecary for preservation.
Traveling Herbal Cart
An integral component of pharmacy education involved the study of botanicals. Students were expected to be proficient in knowledge related to plants used in the creation of medicine. The Apothecary contains a mobile cart which was employed for instruction in this area. The cart contains 144 tin containers of herbal samples which are identified by their common name, botanical name, natural order, habitat and the part of the plant that was used.
Cigarettes for Asthma
A popular item in the Museum is Dr. R. Schiffmann’s Asthmador Cigarettes for asthmatics. The cigarettes, sold until the early 1960s, contained stramonium and belladonna, which were viewed as a respiratory decongestant and a muscle relaxant, respectively. The cigarettes were later favored by individuals for their hallucinogenic qualities. By the late 1960s, reports of poisonings multiplied and they ceased to exist.
Western New York Items
The Apothecary and Historical Exhibits contain many products which were made in Buffalo and other parts of Western New York. Some of these items include Doan’s Tonic Tablets, Charles A. Dref’s Whooping Cough Remedy, Gino Pills, Hutch Tablets, Dr. J.D. Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy, Perry’s Original Hed-Ache Capsules, Peterson’s Ointment, and Dr. Sullivan’s Vegetable Compound.
Medical Tools
A number of items from our collection can also be viewed as part of the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection in the Health Sciences Library which is located in Abbott Hall.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, gets a photo with volunteers at water station one of the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, shares a laugh with supporters during the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, March 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson answers a question (that was given in the form of a rap) from Clemson professor Dr. Chenjarai Kumanyika during his dissertation defense in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Lachlan the Tiger takes a moment to smell the bright orange flowers in front of Tillman Hall, June 21, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Tanner Fogle proposes to his girlfriend, Erin Mayor, on the Clemson University campus, May 19, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University Tiger Band director Dr. Mark Spede conducts the band during a rehearsal on their practice field at sunset Nov. 15, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Memorial Hall Tower
It was for generations the focus of Harvard life… Even the townspeople were beholden, for anyone who lived within a quarter mile could see the face of one of the clocks and hear the tolling of the quarter hour.
—Bainbridge Bunting, Harvard An Architectural History
The tower was the last portion of Memorial Hall to be completed. When the building was formally turned over to the Corporation in 1877, the tower soared an impressive one hundred ninety-five feet but was far less ornate than as depicted in the architects final rendering of the building.
In 1878, Ware and Van Bunt were fortunate to have the opportunity to modify the tower design with the addition of dormers, pinnacles, and more elaborate cresting.
The most dramatic change to the tower came in 1897 when the class of 1872, upon the occasion of their twenty-fifth reunion, provided funds for an ornate clock tower.
In 1945, the copper detail and iron cresting were removed from the tower, presumably as part of a metal drive for the second world war. In 1956, the top portion of the tower was lost in a fire that was reportedly ignited by a welder’s torch during maintenance, reducing the overall height of the building by one third and eradicating the building’s great pyramidal shape.
Gifts from Katherine B. Loker and other friends of the University facilitated the reconstruction of the tower in 1999. Historic preservationists supported the architectural team of Childs Bertman Tsekares in a design that reflects the “clockless” tower of 1878. On May 14, 2000, at a ceremony dedicating the reconstructed tower, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy R. Knowles reflected, “At last, Memorial Hall has grown again, and can have the effect that Henry James wrote about in The Bostonian: ‘It looked significant; it covered a large area, and it sprang, majestic into the winter air.’”
Clemson University graduate student Gabby Nugent shares a laugh with author Brando Skyhorse during the 10th annual Clemson Literary Festival, March 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jimmy Mullinax speaks to participants of Clemson University’s third annual Walk for Veterans at a tail gate after the event, March 8, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Adyson Scar chats delivers a care package to U.S. Navy veteran Charles Ray Davis aka “Chef Charles” at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. Scar was with a group of Clemson student veterans who delivered more than 200 packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Adyson Scar helps maneuver a cart full of care packages through the hallway of the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. Scar was with a group of Clemson student veterans who delivered more than 200 packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University professor Victor Vitanza standw with doctoral candidate A.D. Carson before Carson defends his dissertation in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album titled “Owning my Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions” as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Sara Reeves, a fiscal analyst for Clemson University, shares a moment with a Korean War veteran at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. Reeves was there with a group of Clemson University student veterans, family members, and staff members delivering who delivered more than 200 packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association deliver a care packages to U.S. Navy veteran Charles Ray Davis aka “Chef Charles” at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University doctoral candidate A.D. Carson takes questions during his dissertation defense in the Watt Family Innovation Center auditorium, Feb. 24, 2017. Carson, a candidate in Clemson’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) Ph.D. program, produced a 34-track rap album as opposed to the traditional written dissertation. (Photo by Ken Scar)
TigeRoar, Clemson University’s all-male a cappella ensemble, searches campus for women to serenade and hand out roses to for Valentines Day, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University communication strategist Tara Romanella stands on the set for a production of “Godspell” at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon (back to camera in orange shirt) greets well-wishers during his 100th birthday celebration at Clemson University, Aug. 11, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Haley Gann and her daughter Ever, 8, and son Revel, 4, view the 2017 total Solar Eclipse on the Clemson University campus, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
New U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Benjamin McCall, Dec. 20, 2017. Clemson University's Army and Air Force Reserve Officer's Training Corps units held a joint commissioning ceremony in the Tillman Hall auditorium. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen B. Owens, director of the joint staff, South Carolina National Guard, was the featured speaker. (Photo by Ken Scar)