New orleans pharmacy museum, general preservation assessment and supplies [a general preservation assessment of the collection of new orleans pharmacy museum as a step towards ensuring its long term…

New orleans pharmacy museum, general preservation assessment and supplies [a general preservation assessment of the collection of new orleans pharmacy museum as a step towards ensuring its long term preservation, as well as the purchase of housing supplies and shelving for the library and archives to improve storage and access to the reading room. The bulk of the museum's collection dates from 1880-1930 and includes over 10,000 historical pharmacy and medical artifacts, as well as medical books, serials, oversize prescription files and ledgers, individual prescriptions, photographs, institutional records, and ephemera such as posters and patent medicine advertisements. Housed in the building where the nation's first licensed pharmacist, louis j. Dufilho, JR., lived and operated an apothecary in the historic french quarter of new orleans from 1823-1855, the museum illuminates the history of pharmacy and medicine, shedding particular light on those histories in the unique social and cultural milieu of 19TH and early 20TH century new orleans and louisiana.]