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Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia &c. It makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only. Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R.I. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12.5 x 8 cm. (5 x 3 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting a baby seated in a chair holding a card inscribed "Prof. Horsford's acid phosphate". Includes a small silhouette printed on verso labeled "Count Rumsford". Rumford Chemical Works, established in 1854 by George F. Wilson and Eben Horsford, began manufacturing Horsford's acid phosphate ca. 1868.
Notes Advertising text printed on verso promotes Horsford's acid phosphate for dyspepsia, indigestion, headache, mental & physical exhaustion, nervousness, hysteria, and night sweats of consuption. Sold by Louis A. Bates, pharmacist, 739 Sixth Avenue, one door above 42nd Street, New York.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Bates, Louis A.
Rumford Chemical Works.
Nonprescription drug industry -- Rhode Island -- Providence.
Patent medicines.
Infants.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Horsford's [1975.F.436]
Accession number 1975.F.436