Details
Title Warner's safe rheumatic cure [graphic].
Publisher [Rochester?]
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 11 x 7 cm. (4.25 x 2.75 in.)
Description Trade card showing a girl attending to a man with dwarfism, seated on a chair, and with his two wrapped feet resting on an ottoman. She hands him a bottle of Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure. Image also shows the box for the cure in the lower right corner. H. H. Warner, entered the patent medicine trade in 1879, and expanded his line of products to include the Safe Rheumatic Cure in 1885. The marketing of his "Safe" cure usually alluded to its benefits to persons whose health was already in peril.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject H.H. Warner & Co.
Dwarfs.
Girls.
Non prescription drug industry -- New York -- Rochester.
Patent medicines.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Lithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.7]
Accession number P.2010.36.7