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Creator Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company.
Contributor Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 1819-1883.
Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 1819-1883. Nerve strain.
Sprague, Walter G., 1818-1884.
Pequegnat, James, Mrs., associated name.
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, lithographer.
Title [Collection of advertisements and other promotional materials relating to proprietary medicines manufactured by the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, of Lynn, Mass.]
Alternate Title Guide for women to a knowledge and cure of prolapsus uteri.
Date [1876-]
Physical Description 10 items ; 31 x 24 cm or smaller
Notes Collection title devised by cataloger.
Lydia Estes Pinkham founded the company in 1873, and patented her best-known medicine, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, in 1876. The company also produced Sanative Wash, Blood Purifier, and Liver Pills. It remained in the family until 1968, when it was sold to Cooper Laboratories of Connecticut.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Contents [1] Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a positive cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population. ... Sold by W.G. Sprague, druggist, Vergennes, Vt. -- [2] MS. letter on letterhead, dated Oct. 20, 1888, addressed to Mrs. Jas Pequegnat, and signed "Mrs. Pinkham" -- [3] Letterhead, with small portrait of Lydia E. Pinkham above life dates -- [4] Nerve strain. The busy lives of American women. The cause of their ill health, and the remedy. Written by Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn Mass., and published in the Boston Globe -- [5] Lydia E. Pinkham's four remedies -- [6] Guide for women to a knowledge and cure of prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and all painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population, all of which can be permanently cured, provided the Pinkham preparations are used faithfully, copyright 1893 -- [7] Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and other remedies, with an order blank, and two questionnaires offering a free copy of Elbert Hubbard's biography of Pinkham or a sewing kit to any woman who responds -- [8] Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and other remedies, with an order blank for Lydia E. Pinkham's private text book upon ailments peculiar to women -- [9] For those who wish to know something of what Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines have done, the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, encloses the following testimony -- [10] Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier cures all impurities of the blood. For sale here, with a portrait of Lydia E. Pinkham on the verso, signed: Forbes Co. Boston.
Subject Businesswomen -- United States.
Drugstores -- Vermont -- Vergennes.
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Lydia E. Pinkham.
Medicine, Popular.
Patent medicines.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Massachusetts -- Lynn.
Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 1819-1883. Lydia E. Pinkham's private text-book upon ailments peculiar to women.
Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 1819-1883 -- Portraits.
Women-owned business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Lynn.
Genre Advertisements -- Patent medicines.
Blank forms.
Broadsides.
Letterheads.
Letters.
Illustrator Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, lithographer.
Provenance Pequegnat, James, Mrs., associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| #Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 11779.F (Helfand)
Accession number 11779.F (Helfand)