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[Tarrant & Co.'s Seltzer Aperient trade cards] [graphic].
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Contributor
Wemple & Company, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
[Tarrant & Co.'s Seltzer Aperient trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[New York?]
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
4 prints : 3 chromolithographs and 1 lithograph ; 6.5 x 10 cm. (2.75 x 4 in.) or smaller.
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "Oh this headache! How foolish I was to travel without Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient," "That dose of Tarrant's Seltzer made it all right for me," "It certainly cools my blood and clears my brain," and "The people's remedy, use it for all disorders of the stomach". Illustrations depict a woman in her nightgown standing next to a bed with a towel wrapped around her head; a man with a round stomach holding his fork and knife up in anticipation of the large meal on the table in front of him; and a man smiling and reading a document at a desk next to a waste bin full of crumpled papers.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and engravers include Wemple & Company (New York).
One print [P.2002.67.5] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Tarrant's effervescent seltzer aperient as the "best remedy known for all bilious complaints, sick headache, costiveness, indigestion, heartburn, &c."
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Tarrant & Co.
Pharmaceutical industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Patent medicines.
Eating & drinking.
Gluttony.
Headache.
Reading.
Writing.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Tarrant [1975.F.873; 1975.F.876 & 877; P.2002.67.5]
Accession number
1975.F.873
1975.F.876
1975.F.877
P.2002.67.5
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