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Collection on Weed's Pharmacy, 1902-1968
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Collection on Weed's Pharmacy
- Dates
- 1902-1968 (inclusive)19021968
- Quantity
- 4 boxes plus oversize folder, (1.68 cubic feet)
- Collection Number
- 1971.5098 (accession)
- Summary
- Materials related to Weed’s Pharmacy in Seattle, including photographs, business documents, advertisements and newsletters
- Repository
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Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library
P.O. Box 80816
Seattle, WA
98108
Telephone: 2063241126 x102
library@mohai.org - Access Restrictions
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The collection is open to the public by appointment.
- Languages
- English.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed was born on April 3, 1882 in Jackson, Iowa to Charles Albert and Gertrude Tyler Weed. The Weed family relocated to Seattle around 1890. After finishing high school in 1898, Melvin Weed worked as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company before enrolling in the University of Washington’s School of Pharmacy. Weed completed the two-year program and graduated with a Ph.G. (Graduate in Pharmacy) degree in 1902. After graduation, Weed partnered with businessman Albert G. Keene, and worked as a pharmacist at Lake Washington Pharmacy, located at 2711 Jackson Street. According to city directories, the store was renamed Keene & Weed in 1904. In 1905, the pharmacy moved to its permanent location at 2601 Jackson Street. The store name reverted to Lake Washington Pharmacy in 1907, and around this time, A.G. Keene sold his interests in the pharmacy to Weed, who was now Keene's son-in-law (Weed married Keene's daughter Mamie Luella Keene in 1906). The store became Weed’s Pharmacy in 1910, and operated in the same location until Melvin Weed’s retirement in 1958.
Melvin Weed was also involved in the pharmaceutical community. He was a member of the Washington State Pharmaceutical Association, and was one of the founders of the West Coast Wholesale Drug Company.
Melvin Weed died in January 1962.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection contains various materials pertaining to Weed’s Pharmacies. Advertisements promote not only the store but the wide array of drugs available. Materials from the pharmacy include prescriptions, photo processing envelopes, stationary, and copies of Weed’s Pharmacy News, a monthly newsletter. Photographs include store interiors, snapshots taken on the 50th anniversary of Weed's Pharmacy, and a UW School of Pharmacy Class of 1902 photograph showing Melvin Weed as a student. Other materials include correspondence, a scrapbook of promotional materials, and notes related to pharmaceutical materials.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Restrictions on Use
The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation
Collection on Weed's Pharmacy, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged in six series:
- Promotional materials
- Business documents
- Newsletters
- Photographs
- Ephemera
- Scrapbooks and notebooks
Location of Collection
13a.4.5Location of Collection
13a.4.9Location of Collection
1a.3.7 (oversize drawing)Acquisition Information
Gift of Luell Weed Guthrie (Melvin A. Weed's daughter); received in 1971.
Separated Materials
The donation includes a number of artifacts related to Weed's Pharmacy. These items are catalogued and stored separately by MOHAI's Collections Department.
Related Materials
Weed Family Papers, Accession No. 2000.3.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Promotional materialsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/1 | .1: Miscellaneous advertisements for drugs available at Weed's
Pharmacy
Includes ads for Medicinal olive oil, Euthymol, Colchi-sal, Hydrozone
|
circa 1902-1930 |
| 1/2 | .2: Cards advertising Weed’s Tolu-Turpin Compound |
circa 1902-1930 |
| 1/3 | .3: Cards advertising Wampole’s Creo-Terpin for Coughs and Colds, and
Wampole's Preparation |
circa 1930-1940 |
| 1/4 | .4: Miscellaneous advertisements for drugs
Removed from M.A. Weed's University of Washington Toxicology notebook
|
circa 1902 |
| 1/16 | .24: Promotional binder 2.5 x 5 inches
Cover for small notepad, printed "compliments of M.A. Weed, Ph. G., Lake Washington Pharmacy" and
printed with ads for Weed products.
|
circa 1910-1930 |
| 1/17 | .25: Promotional mailing
Single page letter on Weed's Pharmacy letterhead.
|
circa 1910-1930 |
| folder:oversize | ||
| os | .32: Original cartoon drawing promoting Weed's Tolu Turpin
Compound |
circa 1902-1930 |
Business documentsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/10-1/15 | .18-.23: Prescriptions
5 folders of prescriptions arranged by number stamped on prescription: 21736 through 217948 plus
miscellaneous
|
circa 1919-1930 |
| Box | ||
| 3 | .36: Prescriptions
Burned/damaged
|
circa 1919 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 2/1 | .32: Address book |
circa 1940-1950 |
| 2/2 | .33: Address book |
circa 1940-1950 |
| 2/3 | .34: Drug location register
Notebook with alphabetical divisions used to list pharmaceutical drugs and the drawer location of each.
|
circa 1930-1960 |
NewslettersReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/20 | .28: Weed’s Pharmacy News Two newsletters
November, December
|
1926 |
| 1/21 | .29: Weed’s Pharmacy News Two newsletters
November, August
|
1929-1930 |
| 1/22 | .30: Weed’s Pharmacy News Ten newsletters
Monthly, missing April and June.
|
1931 |
| 1/23 | .31: Weed’s Pharmacy News Five newsletters
January, February, April, May, June
|
1932 |
PhotographsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/9 | .9: Children at Weed pharmacy 50th anniversary celebration, Seattle, July 3, 1952 Bert Weed inside Weed's pharmacy, Seattle, July 3, 1952 16 3.5 x 5 inch photographs in Silverton “Fold-A-Pak”
album
Photographs of Weed's Pharmacy 50th anniversary, showing Melvin A. Weed, Mamie Luella Weed and customers
in Weed’s Pharmacy.
|
1952 |
| 1/9 | .10: M.A. Weed at Weed's Pharmacy on store’s 50th anniversary 5 3.5 x 5 inch photographs
|
1952 |
| 1/9 | .11: Bartell Drug Store interior
Handwritten on verso: Bartell Drug Store // Jackson St. betw. 27th-28th south side 1900 // Melvin Albert
Weed First worked there - then purchased store as Lake Washington Phcy
|
1900 |
| 1/9 | .12: Man wearing hat
Photograph set in oval frame made of two sheets of Weed's Pharmacy letterhead.
Written on paper: Uncle Bert
|
circa 1910-1930 |
| 1/9 | .13: Lake Washington Pharmacy interior
Mounted
|
circa 1905 |
| 1/9 | .14: Soda Fountain in Weed’s Pharmacy
Mounted
|
circa 1910-1930 |
| 1/9 | .15: M.A. Weed working at counter with Tolu-Turpin display.
Mounted
|
circa 1902-1910 |
| 1/9 | .16-.17: UW School of Pharmacy Class of 1902 1 photograph
1 negative
Weed in front row on right
|
1902 |
EphemeraReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/5 | .5: Business card for Lake Washington Pharmacy
Card printed with names of A.G. Keene and M.A. Weed Ph. G. Address listed as 2711 Jackson Street.
|
circa 1902 |
| 1/6 | .6: Newspaper clippings
Multiple obituaries for Weed, articles on store’s 50th anniversary
|
1950-1968 |
| 1/7 | .7: Correspondence 4 items
Thank you letter to M.A. Weed from Garfield High School for giving a talk on pharmacy (1936); personal
letter to Bert and Mamie Weed on G.O. Guy Drugs letterhead (1956); letter announcing the death of William W. Warren,
from Board of Directors of West Coast Wholesale Drug Co., including M.A. Weed (1941); letter to Luell Weed Guthrie
accompanying photos of 50th anniversary of Weed's Pharmacy.
|
circa 1936-1956 |
| 1/8 | .8: Weed's Photo processing envelopes |
circa 1910-1930 |
| 1/18 | .26: Blank letterhead
Blank stationery, envelopes, receipts for Weed's Pharmacy and Lake Washington Pharmacy.
Folder also includes letterhead for organizations to which M.A. Weed belonged: Washington State Pharmaceutical Association, Rainier Heights Commercial Club, Sons of the American Revolution, as well as from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. |
circa 1902-1930 |
| 1/19 | .27: Profit sharing coupons
United Profit Sharing Coupons for Wrigley’s (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company), Smith Brothers, and Union Tobacco
Company.
|
circa 1902-1930 |
Scrapbook and notebooksReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 2/4 | .35: Scrapbook
Scrapbook including a variety of promotional cards advertising Weed's Pharmacy and its products; also a
few cards for Lake Washington Pharmacy. Also includes other stickers and ads for Weed's Pharmacy, and a number of blank
sheets from Weed's Pharmacy prescription pads, printed with letterhead of various doctors.
|
circa 1910-1920 |
| 4/1 | .37: Melvin Weed’s pharmacy notes
Written in address book
|
circa 1900 |
| 4/2 | .38: Melvin Weed’s pharmacy notes
Notebook of diagrams describing the effect of various pharmaceutical agents on body systems. Probably
from Weed's student days at University of Washington School of Pharmacy.
|
circa 1900 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Drugstores--Washington (State)--Seattle
Corporate Names
- Weed's Pharmacy
- Lake Washington Pharmacy
Geographical Names
- United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Weed, M.A. (Melvin Albert), 1882-1964 (creator)
Finding aid prepared by Virginia Butler
2011
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