Richmond Homeopathic Pharmacy


Company Names, addresses, dates:
  Richmond Homeopathic Pharmacy, 501 E Main Street, Richmond VA (1906-c.1944) 1,2
  Richmond Homeopathic Pharmacy, 900 W Franklin Street, Richmond VA (c.1947-c.1954) 2

Notes:
A newspaper article announced that Dr George F. Bagby was opening the Richmond Homeopathic Pharmacy in 1906, and that Richmond had never previously had a pharmacy devoted to homeopathic prescriptions1.
But I noticed that on June 19, 1886, the Richmond Labor Herald had an ad on page 4 for another pharmacy with the same name (Richmond Homeopathic Pharmacy), located at 705 East Main street. This seems to contradict that other newspaper article.

The 1944 Richmond city directory lists the Richmond Homeopathic pharmacy at the original address (501 E Main), and the 1947 directory lists it at the newer address (900 W Franklin), so it apparently moved somewhere within that time frame. The last year it's listed in city directories is 1954.

Bottles:

rhp_01 This is a clear 4", mouth-blown bottle with a label:
label: RICHMOND / Homeopathic Pharmacy / 501 E. Main St., Cor. 5th / RICHMOND, VA.


1 Richmond Daily Dispatch, 5-Aug-1906, page 20
2 Richmond City directories, various years (including 1944,1946,1947,1954,1955 & 1956)


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