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Title C.H. & J. Price, pharmacists, No. 226 Essex Street, Salem, Mass. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date 1880
Physical Description 2 prints : lithographs ; sheet 11.5 x 8 cm (4.5 x 3 in.)
Description Series of picture puzzle cards including "The doctor and his patients" showing a man attired in a monocle and a suit and holding a top hat and "Fair spirits and foul" depicting an anthropomorphized monkey attired in Elizabethan-era clothing and holding a sword. Upon closer inspection, human faces are visible in these two figures. C.H. and J. Price was the partnership between Charles H. and Joseph Price.
Is part of American Puzzle Cards
Notes Copyrighted 1880.
Title from advertising text printed on versos.
Additional advertising text printed on versos: In addition to our large stock of drugs, medicines and chemicals, we offer a complete assortment of elastic stockings, knee caps, anklets, belts &c., for the relief and support of varicose veins, weak, swollen or ulcerated limbs, abdominal weakness or tumors. Also all varieties of spring and elastic trusses. A competent pharmacist will respond to the bell at any hour of the night.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject C.H. & J. Price (Salem, Mass.)
Pharmacists -- Massachusetts -- Salem.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Massachusetts -- Salem.
Animals in human situations.
Daggers & swords.
Faces.
Monkeys.
Men.
Physicians.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Picture puzzles -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - P [P.9828.6645 & 6646]
Accession number P.9828.6645
P.9828.6646

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