Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909. collector.
Title [Carter Medicine Co. trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [New York]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 2 prints : lithographs tinted with one stone ; 7.5 x 12 cm. (3 x 4.75 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a large frog towering over a small, frightened child and a little girl pointing and instructing her ailing grandfather to take Carter's back ache plasters.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Advertising text printed on versos for products made and sold by Carter Medicine Co., including "Carter's little nerve pills" and "smart weed and belladonna back ache pilasters".
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Carter Medicine Co.
Pharmaceutical industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Patent medicines.
Children.
Frogs.
Grandparents.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909. collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Carter [1975.F.131; 1975.F.134]
Accession number 1975.F.131
1975.F.134