Details
Contributor Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Use Dalley's magical pain extractor. The great family ointment. [graphic].
Publisher New York : Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lith
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 2 prints : chromolithographs ; 11.5 x 7.5 cm. (4.75 x 3 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of whimsical illustrated trade cards depicting a male figure attired in a red, white, and blue scarf standing on a tree branch, reading a book as an ink stand with a feather falls from the tree and another male figure wearing a hat and ruffled collar standing on a reed, holding a hoop through which a frog leaps. Imagery also includes birds, frogs, a scythe, and an hourglass. Henry Dalley, Sr. began manufacturing "Dalley's magical pain extractor" in New York in 1839. Cornelius V. Clickener & Co. assumed control of the product name after Dalley's death in 1852. Henry Dalley, Jr. eventually regained control of his father's product in 1865, about five years after the dissolution of C.V. Clickener & Co.
Notes Includes advertising text promoting "the ten reasons" to use Dalley's magical pain extractor printed on versos.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Dalley, Henry, Jr.
Patent medicines.
Birds.
Frogs.
Hourglasses.
Inkstands.
Reading.
Scythes.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Dalley's [1975.F.288-289]
Accession number 1975.F.288
1975.F.289