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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.
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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
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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