Details
Contributor E. Ketterlinus & Co., printer.
Holyoke Electro. Co., printer.
Rode & Brand, printer.
Title [William H. Helfand miscellaneous popular medicine ephemera collection] [graphic].
Date [ca. 1880-ca. 1898]
Physical Description 30 items: lithographs, chromolithographs, halftone photomechanical prints, and letterpress works; 17 x 11 cm.(6.75 x 4.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Collection of ephemera primarily from the pharmaceutical and medical trades. Contains trade cards, business cards, illustrated envelopes, and small-format advertising fliers, calendars, circulars, and cards. Firms and businesses represented include Boston Chemical Company; C.I. Hood & Co.; H.H. Warner & Co.; Maltine Manufacturing Co.; The Newton Horse Remedy Co.; Smith, Kline & French; and Voigt Milling Co. Products advertised include Eskay's albumenized food; cough and kidney cures; balsams; liver pills; heaves and distemper cure; smelling salts; electro-silicon and crudoform liniment; and an obstetric calendar. Illustrations depict various subjects, including storefronts and factories, children, a horse-drawn sulky, a policeman, portraiture, genre and comic scenes, patent medicines, and patriotic and allegorical figures. An envelope containing a vignette of the New York state seal also included as part of the collection.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Various engravers and printers, including Holyoke Electro. Co.; Ketterlinus; and Rode & Brand Lith. Co.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Housed with William Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection.
Subject Boston Chemical Company.
C.I. Hood & Co. (Lowell, Mass.)
H.H. Warner & Co.
Maltine Manufacturing Company.
Newton Horse Remedy Co.
Smith, Kline & French.
Voigt Milling Co.
Animals.
Children.
Factories -- United States.
Horses.
Medicines.
Patent medicines.
Pharmaceutical industry -- United States.
Pharmacists -- United States.
Physicians -- United States.
Police.
Storefronts -- United States.
Genre Ephemera -- 1880-1900.
Advertisements -- 1880-1900.
Business cards -- 1880-1900.
Calendars -- 1880-1900.
Cards -- 1880-1900.
Envelopes -- 1880-1900.
Fliers (Printed matter) -- 1880-1900.
Genre works -- 1880-1900.
Lithographs -- 1880-1900.
Halftone photomechanical prints -- 1880-1900.
Portraits -- 1880-1900.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1880-1900.
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection [P.2010.36]
Accession number P.2010.36