MUSEUM TOUR STOP
SKAGGS BUILDING, THIRD FLOOR LOBBY
Return to the elevator and head to the third-floor lobby, where you will see two display cases in the style of territorial pharmacies holding over-the-counter items from early Arizona drug stores. Many of these medicines have attractive lithograph pictures and amusing labels touting the “benefits” of the products inside. Smaller show globes are displayed, along with a large mirrored soda fountain back-bar. This setup is typical of the fountains of the 1920s and 1930s, with leaded glass and ice cream dishes. Pharmacy students today use this location as a gathering point for meetings and pharmacy organization gatherings.
The display cases in the halls south and west of the elevator lobby, near the outside exits, hold some of the most modern pharmaceutical memorabilia in the museum’s collection, dating from the 1950s and 1960s. These items were collected over three decades by Robert Henry King, a sales representative for E.R. Squibb and Sons Inc.