Details
Contributor Moritz, Charles, printer.
Title Pleis' celebrated fit powders & liver pills, 860 N. Third Street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Chas. Moritz
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1881
Date c1881
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 12 x 8 cm. (4.75 x 3.25 in.)
Description Trade card containing a parental scene using animal figures. Shows a mother and father bunny playing jump rope with their bunny child. The child bunny wears a ribbon around his neck and jumps under the airborne rope. Rabbit tracks are visible on the ground. Also contains several lines of advertising text on the verso. Text promotes the testing of the powder by "over 40,000 cases," its curative powers for any age and for any length of time of the affliction of "spasms," and price per box ($.85 cents or $1). Advertising text also promotes "Pleis' Vegetable Liver Pills" at "25 cents per box."
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject Pleis, John M., Jr.
Nonprescription drug industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Animals in human situations.
Rabbits.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithograhs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.45]
Accession number P.2011.10.45