Antique 1910s Nitric Acid Poison Label ✨ Drink Chalk & Wall Plaster – Pharmacy Ephemera

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☠️ This is an original 1910s nitric acid poison label, unused New Old Stock, from Graham & Wortham’s Drug Store in Corvallis, Oregon — and it stops people in their tracks the moment they actually read it.

Printed in bold red with a skull‑and‑crossbones warning, the label doesn’t just say POISON. It explains what to do if things go wrong — and the instructions are as unsettling as they are fascinating. In the event of poisoning, it advises drinking mixtures made from chalk, wall plaster, softened soap, or raw egg whites, a stark reminder of how experimental and improvised early medical treatment could be.

🧪 Measuring approximately 2½″ × 2½″, this label is crisp, clean, and unused, preserved exactly as it left the printer more than a century ago. It was meant to be pasted onto a bottle sitting behind a neighborhood drugstore counter, where pharmacists mixed and bottled powerful chemicals by hand.

🏪 Graham & Wortham’s Drug Store was a familiar part of daily life in early‑20th‑century Corvallis — a place for remedies, advice, conversation, and community. Like many pharmacies of the era, it produced its own proprietary products, and labels like this were essential for communicating danger in a world before standardized packaging and modern regulation.

⚗️ Nitric acid was historically used in controlled medical and dental applications, including cauterization and other treatments that today feel shocking but were once routine. This label captures that moment in time — when medicine, chemistry, and risk lived side by side on the same shelf.

📜 Today, original poison labels like this are collected not just for their bold graphics, but for the stories they tell when you slow down and read them. It’s a small piece of paper that opens a window into how people once understood danger, treatment, and survival.

An authentic, unused survivor from the golden age of local pharmacies — strange, honest, and impossible to ignore.