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Title: William H. Helfand Comic Valentine Collection
Description: Collection of comic valentines satirizing professional, ethnic, and gender stereotypes of the late 19th century.

Title: William H. Helfand Popular Medicine Collection
Description: Collection of ephemera primarily from the pharmaceutical and medical trades. Contains stationery, receipts, fliers, form letters, trade cards, business cards, calendars, and circulars, ca. 1800-ca. 1940.

Title: William H. Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection
Description: Collection of stationery, primarily illustrated and typographical letterheads, billheads, and form letters, of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses and institutions in the United States (predominantly New York City, New York, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania) issued between circa 1840 and 1935. Subjects include invoices and receipts, shipping arrangements and fees, product orders, payments and payment disputes.

Title: William H. Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection
Description: Collection of illustrated ephemera, primarily letterheads, billheads, receipts, and fliers, for pharmaceutical firms in the United States (predominantly New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Mid-West), and London issued between 1800 and 1940.
Date: 1800-1940

Title: William H. Helfand Miscellaneous Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection
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.

Title: [William H. Helfand graphic popular medicine stationery collection]
Description: Collection of stationery, primarily illustrated and typographical letterheads, billheads, and form letters, of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses and institutions in the United States (predominantly New York City, New York, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania) issued between circa 1840 and 1935. Subjects include invoices and receipts, shipping arrangements and fees, product orders, payments and payment disputes. Firms, businesses, and institutions well represented include James S. Aspinwall; William P. Blanding; L. N. Brunswig; Caswell, Massey & Co.; C.J. Lincoln Co.; College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; Geo. C. Goodwin & Co.; Hall & Ruckel; Dr. William A. Hammond's Sanitarium; Hopkins-Weller Drug Co.; James Baily & Son; J. D. Marshall & Bros. (D. Marshall & Bro.); J. L. Lyons & Co.; A. M. Knowlson; Lanman & Kemp; McKesson & Robbins; Nichols & Harris; P. D. Orvis; S. R. Van Duzer; Wells, Richardson & Co. (Wells & Richardson Co.); Wilson Drug Co.; and W. J. Gilmore & Co. Philadelphia firms represented include A.W. Wright & Co.; Barker, Moore, Mein; Bean & Stevenson; Browning & Brothers; C.H. Butterworth & Co.; Robert Shoemaker & Co.; W.H. Schieffelin & Co.; and Strother Drug Co. Collection also contains several pieces of stationery of firms in New England, including Massachussetts (particularly Boston), Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island; the Mid-West, including Ohio, Michigan, and Minnesota; and the South, including Louisiana (particularly New Orleans), Virginia, and Tennessee. A small number of items also represent businesses in the Western United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. A song sheet, envelope, and stereograph also form the collection., Illustrations depict various subjects. The most numerous are views of pharmaceutical factories and storefronts, often including street and pedestrian traffic. Imagery also depicts pharmaceutical apparatus and trademarks, including mortars and pestles; medical supplies, including trusses; allegorical scenes; heraldry; and art nouveau pictorial details and designs. Other illustrations show medieval apothecaries; the interiors of a pharmacy and dental office; and the mythical creature phoenix., Title supplied by cataloger., Various engravers, printers, and publishers, including Smith Bros.; Gast; A. Hoen & Co.; Collier & Cleveland; Craig, Butt, & Finley; Calvert Lithographing Co.; Snyder & Black; Detroit Litho. Co.; American Bank Note Company; Gies & Co.; Strobridge & Co.; E. Weber; Craig, Finley & Co.; G. H. Dunston; and Wm. H. Brett & Co., Majority of the billheads, letterheads, and form letters completed in manuscript or type and contain manuscript and typewritten notes on recto and verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., Digitized for AMD: Popular Medicine. Series I.
Date: [ca. 1840-1935, bulk 1870-1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Stationery Collection [P.2011.46]

Title: [William H. Helfand miscellaneous popular medicine ephemera collection]
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., 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.
Date: [ca. 1880-ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection [P.2010.36]

Title: [William H. Helfand graphic popular medicine ephemera collection]
Description: Collection of illustrated ephemera, primarily letterheads, billheads, receipts, and fliers, for pharmaceutical firms in the United States (predominantly New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Mid-West), and London issued between 1800 and 1940. Firms well represented include Frederick Stearns & Co.; Maltine Manufacturing Company; and Wm. R. Warner & Co. Materials also document The Altenheim Dispensary; C.A. Bartlett & Co.; Dr. Shoop Family Medicine Co.; Henry K. Wampole & Co; J. N. Harris & Co.; J. H. Schenck & Son; John C. Baker Co.; Johnson & Johnson; National Remedy Company; R. H. Steward Company, Inc.; and Upjohn Pill & Granule Co. Also contains advertisements, bags, calendars, envelopes, illustrations, label proofs, and show cards. Prominent firms represented include Antikamnia Chemical Company; A. Vogeler & Co. (later Charles A. Vogeler Co.); Charles E. Hires Company; Lehn & Fink; Lydia Pinkham; and Morse Yellow Dock Root Syrup Company. Other firms, businesses, and products include Arctic Soda Apparatus; Barker's Cheveux Tonique; Chamberlain's remedies; Dr. Peiro Oxygen treatment; George T. Brown & Co.; A. Gsell; Merchant's Gargling Ointment; Mrs. S. A. Allen's Improved Hair Restorer; T. Jacob's Oil; Tilden & Company; and Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills., Illustrations depict various subjects. The most numerous are views of pharmaceutical factories and storefronts, often including street and pedestrian traffic. Imagery also depicts pharmaceutical and soda apparatus; genre and satiric scenes; children and animals; portraiture; the devil and death; and figures in traditional Japanese costume. Collection also includes ca. 1800 trade card "The Front of Swinton’s Original [Anthony] Daffy’s Elixir Warehouse, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street London"(Advertisements); "The Grand Stand Baseball Game" advertising the laxative "Pluto Water" (Advertisements); a placard for Fowler & Wells Co. containing an image of a phrenological head and corresponding explanatory key (Miscellaneous); and a sheet of stamps advertising Daggett & Ramsdell's Ha-Kol headache remedy (Miscellaneous)., Title supplied by cataloger., Various engravers and printers, including J. Bonsor; Detroit Lith. Co.; Donaldson Brothers; Doty & Bergen; R. Gair; Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co.; The Meisenbach Co.; The Richmond Lith. Co.; A. W. Robinson; and Strobridge Lithographing Co., Majority of the letterheads, billheads, and receipts contain manuscript and typewritten notes. Subjects include solicitations, giveaways with purchases, receipt of testimonials, corrections of mailing lists from postmasters, price lists, and the potential cost to consumers of the stamping of proprietary medicines (1898)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., Digitized for AMD: Popular Medicine. Series I.
Date: [ca. 1800-1931, bulk 1870-1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection [P.2010.37]

Title: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines prepared and sold by Thomas Hollis, druggist and apothecary, 23 Union Street, Boston, Mass.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Thomas Hollis was at this address beginning in 1853. After his death in 1875, the business was carried on by his sons, Thomas and Francis, at the same address., Contents: [1] Hollis' Celebrated Eye Water, for sore, weak, and inflamed eyes -- [2] Jaundice Bitters, prepared by Thomas Hollis -- [3] Hollis's Vegetable Pectoral Syrup, for the cure of coughs, colds, hooping cough, influenza, and all coughs incident to children -- [4] Hollis' Compound Boneset and Wild Cherry Cough Candy -- [5] Hollis's original and genuine Liquid Opodelodoc or Rheumatic Liniment -- [6] Try it! Try it! Try it! Hollis' Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla, with iodide of potass -- [7] Insect Powder. For the destruction of insects, ants, roaches, water bugs, garden worms, &c. -- [8] Jonathan P. Hall & Co. Genuine Spice Bitters, prepared by Thomas Hollis -- [9] Hollis Herbal Compound -- [10] Dr. Whitney's Elixir of Life., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hollis, Thomas, 1802-1875
Date: [not before 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111807.O (Helfand)

Title: [Postcards, bank drafts, and invoices relating to G.G. Green, manufacturer of proprietary medicines, Woodbury, N.J.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Postcard, dated Oct. 15, 1887, from R.K. Hill, Woodbury, N.J., to J.G. Wainwright, Waukegan, Ill. -- [2] Postcard, dated Feb. 27, 1879, from G.G. Green, Woodbury, N.J., to W.S. Clark, New Hope, N.Y. -- [3] Bank draft (printed by Forbes Co. Boston & N.Y.) no. 17666, dated April 3, 1883, drawn on the First National Bank, $23.20, to J.L. Emlet, Hanover, Pa., signed by G.G. Green and H.C. Foote -- [4] Bank draft (printed by the Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co.) no. 8990, dated Dec. 6, 1879, drawn on the First National Bank, $18.20, to J.L. Emlet, Hanover, Pa., signed by G.G. Green and H.C. Foote -- [5] Invoice, dated Nov. 3, 1885, to D.W. Morris, Emporia, Kansas -- [6] Invoice, dated June 22,1878 -- [7] Order form, 1885., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Green, G. G. (George Gill), 1842-1925
Date: [1878-1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111843.O (Helfand)

Title: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines manufactured and marketed by the Egyptian Drug Co., of New York, N.Y.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Pine-Apple Lung Balsam, [1893] -- [2] Egyptian Regulator Tea regulates the bowels and system, [1890] -- [3] $500 reward for as good a family medicine as Egyptian Regulator Tea ... Nils Erickson, Abercrombie, N. Dak. -- [4] 3 best things on earth! How to cure disease. How to keep well. How to make money, [1897] -- [5] Form letter, dated Nov. 5, 1897., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Egyptian Drug Co.
Date: [1890-1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 17178.Q (Helfand)

Title: [Materials relating to Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil, manufactured and marketed by Wm. Renne & Sons, of Pittsfield, Mass.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Will the family of the house please read!, [1869] -- [2] Invoice, dated July 27, 1872, to C.N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y. -- [3] MS. letter on letterhead, dated June 27, 1876, to Mrs. Phebe M. Whitman, Eaton St., Providence, R.I., signed by Z.C. Renne, 3 leaves -- [4] MS. letter on letterhead, dated Jan. 3, 1873, to C.N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Wm. Renne & Sons
Date: [1869-1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111879.O (Helfand)

Title: [Collection of prescription forms.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Davis & Rice, druggists, Morristown, Tenn., dated in MS. 9/5/91 for Miss Lockewood, Wilkinson M.D. -- [2a] Bartram & Millington, registered pharmacists, Paw Paw, Michigan, completed in MS. for Js Smith, Meyan M.D. -- [2b] Bartram & Millington, registered pharmacists, Paw Paw, Michigan, completed in MS. for Mr. Smith, Meyan M.D. -- [3] W.D. Kuhlman. A.M. Riggs. The Star Pharmacy, Morristown, Tennessee -- [4] Johnson & Mauk, druggists and apothecaries, Claysburg, Blair Co., Penn., [187-] -- [5] R.M. & W.J. Snodgrass, apothecaries & druggists, Allegheny, Pa.; on verso: Thomas Mabon, M.D. 184 Lacock Street, Allegheny -- [6] Paige & Crooks, druggists & apothecaries, Rutland, Vt. -- [7] Hermann Krebs, druggist & apothecary, Deutsche Apotheke, Cleveland, Ohio, printed on blue paper -- [8] Hermann Krebs, druggist & apothecary, [187-] -- [9] J.D. Keegan & Co., druggists, Cleveland, O. -- [10] Carriger Roberts & Co. druggists, Morristown, Tenn. -- [11] Irving H. Hills & Co. druggists, mixed paints & oil. Wyoming and Hartwell [Cincinnati, Ohio] -- [12] W.H. Brill & Co., druggists & apothecaries, Allegheny City, Pa. (Pittsburgh : C.A. Miller, lithographer) -- [13] Marion Roberts, druggist, Morristown, Tenn. -- [14] Hermann Krebs, druggist and pharmacist, Cleveland, O. -- [15] R.M. Perkins, Ottawa, Ont. -- [16] W.W. Brookinton, Beaufort, S.C., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1870-1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine Prescriptions 112630.D (Helfand)

Title: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines marketed by Dr. A. Snyder, of Newville, Herkimer County, N.Y.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Death on worms!!! Dr. A. Snyder's Concentrated Oleaginous Extract of Red Cedar, New York : Wm. C. Bryant & Co., [between 1848 and 1852?], 1 sheet ([1] p.) -- [2] Death on worms! Dr. A. Snyder's Concentrated Oleaginous Extract of Red Cedar, 1 sheet ([1] p.) -- [3] Dr. A. Snyder's Electro-Magnetic Tooth Drop, 1 sheet ([1] p.)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Snyder, A.
Date: [between 1848 and 1852?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111821.O (Helfand)

Title: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines marketed by W. Gilmore & Son, of Pavilion, N.Y.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Neuralgia! If you are trouble with this distressing complaint, and wish for relief, try a box of Gilmore's Neuralgia Cure, [1875], 1 sheet ([2] p.) -- [2] Worth its weight in gold! Gilmore's Aromatic Wine, a new remedy for ladies, [1875], [4] p., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: W. Gilmore & Son
Date: [1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111798.O (Helfand)

Title: [Collection of advertisements and other promotional materials relating to proprietary medicines manufactured by the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, of Lynn, Mass.]
Description: 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., 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., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
Date: [1876-]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 11779.F (Helfand)

Title: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines marketed by R.W. Robinson & Son, wholesale druggists, of New York, N.Y.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., The company was formed in 1870 by Russell W. Robinson. It went into bankruptcy in 1908., Contents: [1] The Old Squaw's Cure for Fever & Ague, one testimonial dated Sept. 1871; with MS. notes on verso by a women, "Diary of one day, not a 'busy' one. September 14, 1887" -- [2] Robinson's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with hypophosphites of lime and soda, sold by A.C. Mabie, Sparkill, N.Y. -- [3] Sol-San-Dis (Soluble Sanitary Disinfectant), one testimonial dated Sept. 8, 1890., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R.W. Robinson & Son
Date: [between 1870 and 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111803.O (Helfand)

Title: David Heston & Sons, Frankford, Philadelphia. Specimens and price list, lithographic labels The U.S. Label Printing Establishment. Founded in 1868. Folding druggist bottle boxes. Labeled pill & powder boxes. For gummed work the extra charge is 12 1/2 per cent. We do not furnish less than 1000of any lithographed label
Description: Illustration on recto of specimen sheet/price list depicting the factory for the printing establishment at 1525 Orthodox Street (corner of Orthodox and Franklin (later Griscom) Streets). View also includes street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn drays and wagons. A square border with cornice ornaments surrounds the view. Image also contains decorative and pictorial elements. The firm operated from the location until at least the mid 1920s before relocating to 1208 Race Street by 1936. Heston, a printer and a minister of the Society of Friends, partnered in the firm with his sons Charles B., William, and John B., until his death in 1905., Not in Wainwright., POS 875
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 11837.F (Helfand)

Title: [Collection of 19th-century matriculation tickets, lecture admission cards, schedule cards, and graduation tickets from various colleges of medicine and pharmacy.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., 11501.F.1 Berkshire Medical Institution, Pittsfield, Mass.: [a] matriculation ticket for Joseph D. Nichols, signed by Alonzo Clark, Aug. 11, 1847 -- [b] admission to lectures on anatomy and physiology for Joseph D. Nichols, signed by B.R. Palmer, Aug. 1847 -- [c] admission to lectures on chemistry, botany, and natural philosophy for Joseph D. Nichols, signed by Chester Dewey, Aug. 5, 1847 -- [d] admission to lectures on general and special pathology for Joseph D. Nichols, signed by Alonzo Clark, Aug. 1847 -- [e] admission to lectures on materia medica, and medical jurisprudence for Joseph D. Nichols, signed by Abner H. Brown, Aug. 1847 -- [f] admission to lectures on principles and practice of surgery for Joseph D. Nichols, signed by Gilman Kimball, Aug. 1847 -- [g] admission to lectures on theory and practice of medicine and obstetrics for Joseph D. Nichols, signed by H.H. Childs, Aug. 1847., 11501.F.2 College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York: [a] matriculation ticket, no. 45, 1833-34, for Warren Thrall, signed by N.H. Dering, signed on verso by J.D. Jaques and A.C. Post -- [b] order of lectures for the 27th session, 1833-34 -- [c] admission to New York Hospital for Warren Thrall, signed by John Adams, Nov. 11, 1833; illustrated card engraved by Elkanah Tisdale -- [d] admission to lectures on anatomy & physiology by J. Augustine Smith, for Warren Thrall, no. 21, 1833-34 -- [e] admission to lectures on chemistry and botany by John Torrey, for Warren Thrall, no. 26, 1833-34; card engraved by Rawdon, Wright & Co. -- [f] admission to lectures on materia medica by John B. Beck, for Warren Thrall, 1833-34 -- [g] admission to lectures on medical jurisprudence by John B. Beck, for Warren Thrall, 1833-34; card engraved by Joseph Perkins -- [h] admission to lectures on obstetrics and the diseases of women & children by Edward Delafield, for Warren Thrall, 1833-34; card engraved by Peter Maverick -- [i] admission to lectures on principles and practice of surgery by Alexander H. Stevens, for Warren Thrall, 1833-34; card illustrated with unidentified portrait -- [j] admission to lectures on theory and practice of physic, and clinical medicine by Joseph Mather Smith, for Warren Thrall, 1833-34 -- [k] admission to lectures on principles and practice of surgery, and surgical anatomy by Willard Parker, for John Moneypenny, 1849-50., 11501.F.3 Columbia College (New York, N.Y.). College of Physicians and Surgeons: [a] admission to lectures on anatomy and physiology by Alexander Ramsay, for Henry U. Onderdonk, 1st course, no. 14, Nov. 21, 1807; illustrated card engraved by Francis Kearny -- [b] admission to lectures on anatomy and physiology by Alexander Ramsay, for Henry U. Onderdonk, 2nd course; illustrated card engraved by Francis Kearny -- [c] admission to lectures on chemistry by John Griscom, for Henry U. Onderdonk; card printed by Samuel Wood -- [d] admission to lectures on chemistry and legal medicine by James S. Stringham, for Henry U. Onderdonk, Nov. 17, 1807 -- [e] admission to lectures on medical jurisprudence by John Ordronaux, at Columbia College Law School, for Miss Sarah Kingsbury, 1860 -- [f] matriculation ticket for John Morgan M.D., Feb. 26, 1885., 11501.F.4 Female Medical College of Pennsylvania: [a] admission to lectures on chemistry & toxicology by Clinton Gillingham, for Rebecca L. Fussell, 1854-55 -- [b] admission to lectures on obstetrics and diseases of women and children by Sylvester Birdsell, for Rebecca L. Fussell, 1855-56 -- [c] admission to lectures on surgery by K.G. Thomas, for Rebecca L. Fussell, no. 14, Oct. 3, 1855 -- [d] admission to lectures on general and special anatomy by Edwin Fussell, for Rebecca L. Fussell, Oct. 1, 1856 -- [e] admission to lectures on materia medica and general therapeutics by Mark G. Ker, for Rebecca L. Fussell, 1856-57 -- [f] admission to lectures on practice of medicine by Ellwood Harvey, for Rebecca L. Fussell, 1856-57 -- [g] admission to lectures on principles and practice of surgery by Henry J. Brown, for Rebecca L. Fussell, 1856-57 -- [h] matriculation ticket for Rebecca L. Fussell, Nov. 1857, signed by Edwin Fussell -- [i] admission to lectures on physiology by Ann Preston, for Rebecca L. Fussell, no. 6, 1857-58 -- [j] admission to lectures on the principles and practice of medicine by Isaac Comly, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, for Jennie Stevenson, 20th session, Oct. 1869., 11501.F.5 Harvard Medical School: [a] admission to lectures on practical anatomy, for Henry Blanchard, Nov. 7, 1838 -- [b] admission to lectures on theory and practice of physic by John Ware, for Henry Blanchard, Nov. 7, 1838; card engraved by W.S. Pendleton and James Eddy -- [c] matriculation ticket for Henry Blanchard, Nov. 6, 1839, signed by Walter Channing -- [d] admission to lectures on materia medica by Edward H. Clarke, for George E. Stubbs, Nov. 1862 -- [e] third course ticket, admission to medical lectures, for George C. Shattuck, 1865; card engraved by John B. Bolton., 11501.F.6 Jefferson Medical College: [a] order of lectures, session of 1848-49 -- [b] admission to lectures on chemistry by Franklin Bache, for Henry Woddrop, Oct. 19, 1849 -- [c] admission to lectures on general, descriptive, and surgical anatomy by Joseph Pancoast, for Henry Woddrop, Nov. 1849 -- [d] admission to lectures on institutes of medicine &c. by Robley Dunglison, for Henry Woddrop, 1849-50 -- [e] admission to lectures on materia medica and general therapeutics by Robert M. Huston, for Henry Woddrop, Nov. 1849 -- [f] admission to lectures on midwifery & diseases of women & children by Charles D. Meigs, for Henry Woddrop, Oct. 1849 -- [g] matriculation ticket for Delavan Bloodgood M.D. U.S.N., signed by Robley Dunglison, Nov. 26, 1861 -- [h] Winter examination by Drs. Warder, McArthur, Leaman and Hatfield, 1871., 11501.F.7 Medical School of Maine: [a] admission to lectures on materia medica and therapeutics by William C. Robinson, for William B. Swasey, Feb. 1865 -- [b] admission to lectures on the theory and practice of medicine by Israel T. Dana, for William B. Swasey, Feb. 1865., 11501.F.8 New Hampshire Medical Institution: [a] admission to lectures on anatomy and physiology by E.R. Peaslee, for Joseph D. Nichols, Aug. 3, 1843 -- [b] admission to lectures on chemistry and pharmacy by Oliver P. Hubbard, for Joseph D. Nichols, Aug. 1843; card engraved by Daggett, Hinman & Co. -- [c] admission to lectures on surgery and obstetrics by Dixi Crosby, for Joseph D. Nichols, Aug. 3, 1843 -- [d] admission to lectures on the theory and practice of physic by Joseph Roby, for Joseph D. Nichols, Aug. 3, 1843 -- [e] Dartmouth. Graduating exercises of the Medical Department, 1877 Tuesday evening, Oct. 30th., 11501.F.9 New York Post-Graduate Medical School: [a] admission to the Department of Clinical Obstetrics, Prof. E.L. Partridge, for John Morgan, Oct. 19-Dec. 7, 1883; ink stamp on verso -- [b] admission to the Department of Diseases of the Eye and Ear, Prof. D.B. St. John Roosa, Associate Prof. W.O. Moore, for John Morgan, Oct. 19-Dec. 7, 1883; ink stamp on verso -- [c] admission to the Department of Diseases of the Throat, Prof. C. Wagner, Associate Prof. F. Whiting, for John Morgan, Oct. 19-Dec. 7, 1883, no. 13; ink stamp on verso -- [d] admission to the Department of Histological and Pathological Anatomy, Prof. T.E. Satterthwaite, Assoc. Prof. W.H. Porter, for John Morgan, Oct. 19-Dec. 7, 1883, no. 20; ink stamp on verso -- [e] admission to the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Mechanical Therapeutics, Prof. M. Josiah Roberts, for John Morgan, Oct. 19-Dec. 7, 1883; ink stamp on verso -- [f] admission to the Department of Physical Diagnosis, Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics, Prof. T.W. Satterthwaite, Prof. A.H. Smith, for John Morgan, Oct. 19-Dec. 7, 1883; ink stamp on verso -- [9] admission to the Department of Applied Anatomy, Prof. A.L. Ranney, for John Morgan, May 6-June 24, 1884., 11501.F.10 Rutgers Medical College, New York, N.Y.: [a] admission to lectures on anatomy by John D. Godman, for Isaac M. Ward, 1826-27; illustrated card engraved by William Kneass -- [b] admission to lectures on chemistry by John Griscom, for Isaac M. Ward, 1826-27; illustrated card engraved by Peter Maverick -- [c] admission to lectures on obstetrics and forensic medicine by John W. Francis, for Isaac M. Ward, no. 62, 1826-27; illustrated card -- [d] admission to lectures on principles & practice of surgery by Valentine Mott, for Isaac M. Ward, 1826-27; illustrated card signed: Prud'homme sc. 1823 -- [e] admission to lectures on theory & practice of physic and clinical medicine by David Hosack, for Isaac M. Ward, no. 94, Nov. 6, 1826 -- [f] admission to lectures on therapeutics & materia medica by W.J. MacNeven, for Isaac M. Ward, no. 83, Nov. 1826 -- [g] matriculation ticket for William P. Vail, signed by Valentine Mott, no. 123, 1827-28., 11501.F.11 University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Medicine: [a] admission to lectures on the institutes of medicine by Samuel Jackson, for Ephraim F. Leake, Nov. 8, 1843 -- [b] admission to lectures on practical anatomy by W.E. Horner and P.B. Goddard, for Ephraim F. Leake, Nov. 9, 1843; illustrated card has portrait of P.S. Physick engraved by Robert Tiller Jr. -- [c] Spring course of lectures and clinics, March 20 to June 17, 1871 -- [d] admission to lectures on the institutes of medicine by Francis G. Smith, for Charles M. Seltzer, 1876-77., 11501.F.12 University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Medicine. Eugene A. Grove, session 1867-1868: [a] matriculation ticket, signed by R.E. Rogers, Oct. 21, 1867; engraved illustration of university buildings -- [b] admission to lectures on anatomy by Joseph Leidy -- [c] admission to lectures on chemistry by R.E. Rogers -- [d] admission to lectures on materia medica & pharmacy by Joseph Carson -- [e] admission to lectures on operative surgery by Henry H. Smith -- [f] admission to practical anatomy, D. Hayes Agnew demonstrator; engraved illustration of a skull., 11501.F.13 University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Medicine. Eugene A. Grove, session 1868-1869: [a] matriculation ticket, signed by R.E. Rogers, Oct. 17, 1868; engraved illustration of university buildings -- [b] schedule card, session of 1868-69 -- [c] admission to lectures on anatomy by Joseph Leidy -- [d] admission to lectures on chemistry by R.E. Rogers -- [e] admission to lectures on materia medica & pharmacy by Joseph Carson -- [f] admission to lectures on obstetrics and diseases of women & children by R.A.F. Penrose -- [g] admission to lectures on principles & practice of surgery by Henry H. Smith -- [h] admission to lectures on theory and practice of medicine by Alfred Stillé., 11501.F.14 University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Medicine. Eugene A. Grove, session 1869-1870: [a] matriculation ticket, signed by R.E. Rogers, Oct. 18, 1869; engraved illustration of university buildings -- [b] schedule card, session of 1869-70 -- [c] admission to lectures on anatomy by Joseph Leidy -- [d] admission to lectures on chemistry by R.E. Rogers -- [e] admission to lectures on the institutes of medicine by Francis G. Smith -- [f] admission to lectures on materia medica & pharmacy by Joseph Carson -- [g] admission to lectures on obstetrics and diseases of women & children by R.A.F. Penrose -- [h] admission to lectures on principles & practice of surgery by Henry H. Smith -- [h] admission to lectures on theory and practice of medicine by Alfred Stillé -- [j] Winter examinations by Drs. Woods, Norris, and Hunter, signed by H.B. Hare., 11501.F.15 Yale College (1718-1887). Medical Institution: [a] Yale Private Medical School admission card for Paul Mundé, winter term 1863-64, signed by Worthington Hooker -- [b] admission card for John Morgan, Sept. 1867, signed by C.A. Lindsley -- [c] admission to lectures on chemistry by Benjamin Silliman, for John Morgan, 1868-69 -- [d] admission to lectures on histology, pathology and microscopy by Moses C. White, for John Morgan, 1868-69 -- [e] admission to lectures on obstetrics and diseases of women and children by Stephen G. Hubbard, for John Morgan, 1868-69; card lithographed by Punderson & Crisand -- [f] admission to lectures on the theory and practice of medicine by Charles L. Ives, for John Morgan, 1868-69; card lithographed by Punderson & Crisand., 11501.F.16 Pharmacy colleges: [a] Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, commencement ticket, May 22, 1872, at Horticultural Hall, Geo. F.H. Markoe, dean -- [b] Parrish's School of Practical Pharmacy, admission card for S.J. Stevenson, 1869, signed by Edward Parrish, lecturer, Clemmons Parrish, demonstrator -- [c] Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, admission to lectures on pharmacy by William Procter Jr., for Adolph W. Miller, 1861-62 -- [d] Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, admission to lectures on materia medica and botany by John M. Maish, for John Brewster Reynolds, 1879-80 -- [e] Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, commencement ticket, March 16, 1880, at the Academy of Music., 11501.F.17 Miscellaneous: [a] admission to lectures on materia medica and practical chemistry by Samuel Stratten, for K.R. Risk -- [b] Bellevue Hospital Medical College, general ticket, 1863-64, for John Kirker, signed by Isaac E. Taylor, president, and Austin Flint Jr., secretary -- [c] Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania, schedule card, 1865-66 -- [d] Edinburgh City Hospital, admission card for Edgar Cyriax, winter session, Jan. to March 1898, signed by Claude B. Ker -- [e] Iowa University. College of Physicians & Surgeons [Keokuk?], admission to practical anatomy, session 185[blank] -- [f] Louisville Medical College, admission to practical anatomy by Geo. J. Cook, for C. Keefer, 1876-77 -- [g] Philadelphia Dental College, admission to lectures on dental pathology and therapeutics by J. Foster Flagg, for Frank A. Monroe, 1883-84 -- [h] University of Edinburgh, admission to lectures on anatomy, sound & morbid, and pathology by Alexander Monro, for John Wilson, 22 April 1844; card has portrait of Alexander Monro Secundus -- [i] University of Louisville Medical Department, admission to lectures on medical chemistry and toxicology by James W. Holland, for James W. Noel of Arkansas, 1871-72; card lithographed by German & Bro., Louisville, Ky. -- [j] University of the City of New York Medical Department, commencement ticket, March 6, 1888, Metropolitan Opera House, Charles Inslee Pardee, dean -- [k] University of the State of New York, College of Physicians & Surgeons of the Western District, admission to lectures on surgery by John Delamater, for Leonard G. Haskins, 1834-35 -- [l] University of Vermont Medical Department, admission to Mary Fletcher Hospital for M.L. Michael, 1882, signed by A.J. Millard, supt., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1807-1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine Admission cards 11501.F (Helfand) BOX

Title: Aristotle’s Master-piece
Creator: Aristotle’s Masterpiece, creator
Date: 1830
Location: Am 1830 Ari

Title: The mother's menical guide
Creator: Bradford, R. & H. O., creator
Date: 1833
Location: Am 1833 Brad

Title: Aristotle’s Master-piece
Creator: Aristotle’s Masterpiece, creator
Date: 1830
Location: Am 1830 Ari

Title: Paints and drugs, for cash 162 Broadway, just below Courtlandt St. "The cash drug house," P.D. Orvis. Notice. Your are respectfully requested to put this circular in your memorandum book and call at my establishment, conveniently located in Broadway, just below Courtlandt Street and Maiden Lane, where courteous salesmen will be in readiness to show you a full line of paints, ... drugs, patent medicines and fancy goods
Description: The illustration shows a U.S. flag with the motto: Stand by the flag., Printed in red ink; printed area measures 15.7 x 10.7 cm., Library Company copy has contemporary MS. note: P D Orvis circular drugs &c 1861., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Orvis, Philander Denslow, 1828-1903
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Orvis 113005.D (Helfand)

Title: Dr. C.W. Kierstead's unrivalled remedy, the King of All Pain! The great internal & external medicine, ... You will find full directions in the German and English languages, how to use the King of All Pain, on the inside wrapper of each bottle. ... Sold by druggists, apothecaries & dealers, everywhere
Description: Copyright 1865 by Dr. C.W. Kierstead in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 23.9 x 16.6 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kierstead, C. W.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Kiers 16742.Q (Helfand)

Title: Dr. O. Phelps Brown's acacian balsam, renovating pills, magic assimilant ethereal ointment, with full directions for use. Herbal remedies
Description: Running title: Dr. O. Phelps Brown's herbal remedies., "All orders, or other correspondence relative to the four great remedies, must be addressed to Dr. O. Phelps Brown, No. 19 Grant St., Jersey City, N.J."--p. 4; Dr. Brown was at this address from at least 1865 to 1869; by 1870, he was at 21 Grand St., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Brown, O. Phelps (Oliver Phelps)
Date: [between 1865 and 1869?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Brown 16723.Q (Helfand)

Title: Hubbel & Co.'s Celebrated Golden Bitters. The best tonic in the world By tonics are understood those substances the operation of which is to give vigor and strength to the system. ... This tonic is no humbug, but is in fact the best in the world
Description: On verso: Geo. C. Hubbel & co., proprietors of the Celebrated Golden Bitters., At head of title, each side: See index to advertisers page 51., At foot, each side: See over., "These Bitters, although only recently brought into the market, have acquired a marked degree of public favor, which must soon create for them a very general demand all over the country."--advertising article in the New York Times, April 25, 1864., Illustration of an eagle on an American shield signed: Pease sc., Printed on yellow paper., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Geo. C. Hubbel & Co.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Geo C 111846.O (Helfand)

Title: Drugs and medicines F.L. Allen, wholesale and retail dealer in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, dye stuffs, perfumery, camphene, burning fluid, &c., No. 33 State-Street, New-London, Conn. ... Phoenix Guano, from McKean's Island. ... Combined Guano, ... For sale by Williams & Haven, New-London, Ct
Description: A leaf removed from The New-England almanac, and farmer's friend, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1863 (New London : Printed by Starr & Farnham, 1862)., On verso: Dr. Sweet's Infallible Liniment, the great external remedy, ... Richardson & Co., proprietors, Norwich Ct. ..., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Allen, F. L., of New London, Conn
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Allen 111469.D (Helfand)

Title: Circular to the trade Office of B.L. Judson & Co. 106 Franklin Street, New York. On and after March 26th, 1864, the prices of the following articles will be: ... The large advance in prices of all things used in the manufacture of the above articles renders it necessary to advance our prices to the above figures, which we believe are lower than the prices of many other standard remedies
Description: Printed on p. [1] only., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: B.L. Judson & Co.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 B L Juds 112601.D (Helfand)

Title: "A slight cold," coughs, hoarseness, or sore throat which might be check with a simple remedy, if neglected, often terminates seriously. Few are aware of the importance of stopping a cough, ... "Brown's Bronchial Troches" were first introduced in the year 1850
Description: Testimonials dated 1860 and 1861., Printed area measures 32.5 x 14.7 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: John I. Brown & Son
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 John 16772.Q (Helfand)

Title: Eighteen 100 sixty 1. Multum in parvo. Read this carefully before laying it aside! As you will find something that will interest, and possibly benefit you. The people of France, Germany, Prussia, and other states of the Old World, have used Rosenberger's Balm of Gilead Ointment, for nearly a century for all kinds of wounds, bruises and putrifying sores, to the exclusion of every other ointment, plaster, liniment or external remedy
Description: German text on verso: Achtzehn 100 sechzig 1. Multum in parvo. (Viel im Kleinen.), Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: G.T. Taft & Co.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 G T Taft 11544.F (Helfand)

Title: Dr. Hooker's medicines J.T. Webber & Co., druggists and apothecaries, No. 7 State Street, Springfield, Mass. Proprietors of Dr. Hooker's Cough and Croup syrup, Solidified Balsam and Liquid Balm. Dealers in patent medicines, cooking extracts, perfumery, toilet articles, &c., &c. Pure wines and liquors for medicinal purposes. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded
Description: Joseph T. Webber began his drug business on State St., Springfield, Mass. in 1863, and moved to the corner of State and Main in 1865., "Family knitting machines. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company."--p. 2. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company was organized in Springfield, Mass. in 1865., A leaf detached from an unidentified work, with running title: Advertisements., One illustration signed: T. Chubbuck sc. Springfield., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J.T. Webber & Co.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 J T Web 112072.D (Helfand)

Title: Pocket calendar describing Hunnewell's Universal Cough Remedy Hunnewell's Tolu Anodyne Hunnewell's Eclectic pills
Description: At head of title: 1862 1862., A folded sheet with four panels on each side when unfolded. The "outside" contains a title panel, a panel certifying J.L. Hunnewell's membership in the American College of Pharmacy (with an illustration engraved by William Tyler), and two 1862 calendar panels, each with a note "Please read inside carefully." The "inside" has the caption title "Special points in Hunnewell's Triple Remedies," and three panels, numbered 2-4, with running title "Hunnewell's Triple Remedies.", "John L. Hunnewell, proprietor, practical chemist and pharmaceutist, Boston, Mass."--panel 4., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Hunnewell, John L.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Hunne 112074.D (Helfand)

Title: Ah! now I well know what it was that I smelt,
Description: The ugly hatter stands at a table ironing top hats. "Gossamer" refers to the shellacked muslin pieces that shaped silk hats. "Swipes" is slang for copious drinking, and "logwood" is a type of dye. "Judy" is slang for a ridiculous woman, and the sender suggests that the recipient could only marry such a woman., Text: Ah! now I well know what it was that I smelt, / It was the bottle-nosed, rabbit-mouthed dealer in felt. / Mother Judy might marry such a fellow, but I-- / Detest such a dabbler in logwood and dye, / Though your head is so big-- 'tis of gossamer rig-- / All bloated and puffed, like a measly pig, / Beastly swiller of swipes-- what a picture is thine-- / Bad luck to the girl who is your Valentine., See similar print, A Hatter, Comic Valentines, 4.40, Provenance: Helfand, William H.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Alas, poor man, thy suit of plush,
Description: A jockey stands at a bar drinking from a beer tankard with a dog standing attentively at his side. In the background, a bartender stands behind the bar across from a woman who grins and holds a glass., Text: Alas, poor man, thy suit of plush, / Has fairly turned thy brain I ween, / But if thou art a man, Oh! blush, / To be a thing so very mean, / Oh! Jockey of the spotless clothes, / Oh! Jockey of the gundy plush, / Oh! Jockey with the turn up nose, / I pity thee and for thee blush., Provenance: Helfand, William H.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Although you drive a Hansom, a handsome driver you are not,
Description: The carriage driver has a large nose, a beard and curly hair. He holds a horse whip and a woman watches him from a window in the background. "Shoful" is slang for questionable., Text: Although you drive a Hansom, a handsome driver you are not, / For your looks are very "shoful," and your's is a shabby lot; / So drive away dear Cabby, and don't cast sheep's eyes at me, For I like a smarter chap than you -- your "fair" I'll never be, Provenance: Helfand, William H.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Awkward, clumsy, bawling brute,
Description: A peddler stands between a fence and a wooden stand. Over his ahoulder is a strap carrying mugs, which are also hanging from the fence and stand., Text: Awkward, clumsy, bawling brute, / How well you with your CALLING suit, / For as about the streets you shout, / Each servant girl on looking out / Exclaims "just hear that fellow, : / To bring the Pot unto his call; / Why what a cheek the fellow's got, / He's only fit to go to Pot., Provenance: Helfand, William H.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: A Baker.
Description: A baker stands in front of his oven. He is smoking a pipe and his shovel leans on the wall next to him., Text: The bread that you bake is not fit for a dog, / Your pies and your cake would sicken a hog; / Sawdust-flour you use, rancid butter and lard, / For such practice you ought to be feathered and tarred, / Or else to be taken and baked in your oven -- / You dirty old cheat, and rascal, and sloven., Provenance: Helfand, William H.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: A bitter "draught"
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing the forced conscription of the poor and immigrant classes unable to pay for substitutes during the Civil War. Shows Abraham Lincoln, attired in a smock adorned with stars, feeding "Conscription" medicine from a bowl to a scrawny Irishman who has his mouth wide open. An advertisement for "Dr. Lincoln's Ready Relief Pills" adorns the wall behind them., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Hall & Co.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Hall Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.13]

Title: I declare I am quite the Slave of the Ring!
Description: A woman carries a tray filled with bottles, cups, and a teapot., Provenance: Helfand, William H..
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: "Creme" oat meal toilet soap
Description: Trade card promoting soap manufacturer J.D. Larkin & Co. and depicting a racist caricature of an anthropomorphized chimpanzee as a man hunter. He stands in front of a section of tall grass and holds a clutch of birds in his left hand and a rifle under his right arm. He is attired in a hunting cap, red jacket, tan pants, and black high boots. Leather straps are criss-crossed over his chest. J.D. Larkin & Co. was founded in 1875. By 1881 the soap company included over 100 factory workers and sustained specialized departments for advertising and shipping, as well as solicited to door-to-door private residences in addition to shopkeepers. Trade cards with the company logo were included with each box of soap. By 1885 the firm only directly sold their products to residential customers and was known for their premiums. The company was sold in 1941 and continued as a mail-order business until 1962., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, Clay & Richmond, Buffalo, N.Y., 1881., Printed in upper right corner on recto: J, D, L, & C. monogram (ie. J.D. Larkin & Co.) surmounting "Buffalo, N.Y.", Series no. printed on recto: II., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Creme" toilet soap sold by A.E. Snow, dealer in drugs, medicines, etc. in Plainfield, Vt. Also promotes "six different designs" of cards by the People's Mfg. Co., Buffalo, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - S [P.9828.6852]

Title: Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner--"I'll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I'll lick de hul firm." Compliments of J. Harley Compton, druggist, New Egypt, N.J
Description: Racist trade card promoting the druggist J. Harley Compton and depicting a caricature of an older African American man reading a notice on a country grocery store. Shows the man with a white beard and attired in a yellow brimmed hat, a long-sleeved red shirt, yellow pants with patches and held up by suspenders, and black shoes. He bends forward to read the sign on the boarded up, dilapidated store. It states in the vernacular that the Johnsing & Skinner Grocery is out of business and that, “Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me--dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing." The African American man is labeled as a creditor who says in the vernacular, “I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.” Another sign on the building states, "10 miles to de post ofice (sic)." In the right, the man’s donkey is tied to an orange post behind him. In the background, fenced in fields and trees are visible. William Carroll purchased J. Harley Compton’s drugstore in New Egypt, New Jersey in 1895., Title from item., Text printed on recto: Johnsing & Skinner Grocery. Notis—De firm of Johnsing & Skinner am resolved. Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me—dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing. Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner—“I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.”, Advertising text printed on verso promotes items manufactured by J. Harley Compton, including Compton's concentrated flavoring extracts, liquid rennet, camphor ice with glycerine, cholera and dysentery drops, and Compton's tooth powder. Dated Oct. 9th, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - C [P.9828.5679]

Title: Warner's safe rheumatic cure
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., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.7]

Title: The little bill poster
Description: Trade card showing a girl posting a "bill" advertising "Eskay's Albumenized Food for Infants and Invalids" on a wood fence. A satchel lies beside her on the ground. Eskay's food was a modified milk product., Publication date based on copyright statement "copyrighted 1896, S, K, & F. Co. Philadelphia.", Name of artist from several lines of advertising text printed on verso, including two testimonials and premium offer reading, "For three 50-cent wrappers, or their equivalent in value of other sizes, we will send free of all expense a copy of the handsome picture on the other side, in nine colors, size 16 x 25 inches, without any advertising upon it whatever. The original painting is one of the latest works of the celebrated artists, Ida Waugh, and is a handsome work of art. Full directions for mounting accompany each picture., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.17]

Title: Infancy to old age
Description: Complementary testimonial trade cards containing portraits of older consumers of Eskay's Food. One card shows "Ebenezer F. Andrews," rosy-cheeked, wearing a beard, and attired in a suit and tie. Testimonial text below the image reads "I am an invalid troubled with indigestion for over 40 years (am now 67). Over a year ago I commenced using Eskay's Food, and can truly say it is the best Food for invalids I have ever tried." Second cards shows "Mrs. Amelia O'Keefe," rosy-cheeked, and attired in a neckerchief adorned with a pin, spectacles, and her white hair pinned under her ears. Promotional text below the image reads "Now over 98 years old, was nourished and sustained through a very critical illness by the use of Eskay's food. She was unable to retain any nourishment on her stomach until she resorted to this Food.", Printed on versos: vignettes showing children playing and individuals near a river, testimonials from parents of babies fed Eskay's, and a description for preparing the modified milk product., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.18 & 19]

Title: World's Dispensary Medical Association. Proprietors of Dr. Pierce's family medicines. Buffalo, N.Y
Description: Letterhead containing a montage of images, including an exterior view of the dispensary factory, the company trademark, and pictorial details. Exterior view also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages. Trademark shows Asclepius standing on a globe. Details include a palm leaf. Dr. Ray Pierce, a Buffalo eclectic medical doctor, had from the late 1860s been manufacturing patent medicines, such as Dr. Pierce’s smart weed and pleasant pellets. He organized a dispensary of “medical gentlemen” in 1873 and in 1878 opened The Invalids' and Tourists' Hotel in Buffalo for the treatment of chronic diseases. In 1879 he merged the Consulting Department of the World's Dispensary with the hotel, and established the World's Dispensary Medical Association., Stamped above image: Dr. Pierce's golden Medical Discovery. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Dr. Pierce's Comp. Ext. of Smart-Weed. Dr. Pierce's Nasal Douche. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy., Completed in type on June 2, 1898 to "The Retail Drug Trade of America" from R.V. Pierce confirming "we regret being obliged to advance prices" in action to the "bill now pending in Congress for the stamping of proprietory medicines." Pierce suggests the retailers make substantive advance purchases to offset the pending increasing prices., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Billheads, etc. [P.2010.37.60]

Title: Grand-stand baseball Pluto Water. America's greatest physic for constipation, stomach & kidney, liver troubles. 15 [cents]. 35 [cents]. All drug stores. Ask your doctor
Description: Gameboard containing a circle comprised of 30 spaces surrounding advertising text and an image of the devil. Spaces marked with baseball rulings and plays, including Strike, Ball, Out, Foul, and Single Hit 1 Base. Circle surrounded by a "baseball diamond.", "Grand Stand Base Ball Rules" printed on the verso. Rules explicate Number of Players, a Game, an Inning, and "When Needle Stops On: Out, Strike, Foul, Ball, Single Hit, Two Base Hit, Three Base Hit, Home Run, Sacrifice Hit, and Double Out. Also includes Note - To see which bats first each player spins once, and the highest goes to bat: Home run is highest, then three base hit, two base hit, single hit, sacrifice, ball, foul, strike out, double out being lowest., Printed on verso: Price 25 [cents]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Advertisements [P.2010.37.89]

Title: Dr. Leidy's san-guin'e-ous sarsparilla panacea vegetable compound Prepared only by Dr. Leidy National dispensary, No. 217 N. 6th Street, Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Label for druggist and patent medicine dealer Dr. N. B. Leidy. Comprised of three sections within ornamented borders. Front section includes a vignette portrait of Leidy and directions for use. Side sections include promotional text and names of professional endorsers. Leidy operated a drug dispensary from the 1840s to late 19th century. Leidy operated from North Sixth Street by 1880., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Misc. [P.2010.37.90]

Title: Frederick Stearns & Co. manufacturing pharmacists, Detroit, Mich., U.S.A Frederick K. Stearns, President. Frank C. McLaughlin, Vice Prest. & Treas. Thomas Bennett, Secretary. Established 1855. Incorporated 1882. Detroit, Mich. Windsor, Ont. London, Eng. New York City. 1 Platt St
Description: Billhead containing a vignette exterior view of the manufactory of the business established in 1855 by Frederick Stearns. View shows the multi-story, block long factory building in front of which street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn wagons travel. Also contains pictorial details, including a ribbon, flowers, and the company trademark designed as a coat of arms., Completed in type on September 12, 1895 to H. A. Kerste, Schenectady, N.Y. for 6 items, including "Edel. Cream," "Talc. Powd.," and "Tansy Pills" for $15.05., Typewritten on recto: 1 case. 9 LBS. For Wm. Sauter shipped in you care. Please notify by postal which we enclose in your case., Inscribed on recto: 15.05 Less 3% .45/14.60. Less freight .56/14.04., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Billheads, etc. [P.2010.37.19]

Title: [Collection of letterheads and billheads of Wells, Richardson & Co., later Wells & Richardson Co., wholesale druggists, Burlington, Vt. completed to C. N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y.]
Description: Collection includes letterheads and billheads, majority illustrated, dated between June 13, 1873 and September 30, 1886. Illustrations depict three variant exterior views of the firm's storefront on College Street in the 1870s and 1880s. Earlier views also show signage adorning the side of the building and street traffic, including a man pulling a handcart, and horse-drawn carriages and wagons. Later view captioned "125 to 133 College St., Burlington, Vt." shows the two buildings of the firm in front of which pedestrians walk and several horse-drawn wagon and carriages travel in the street. The prints also contain ornamented type and lettering and pictorial details. Items billed with totals ranging for $2.25 to $114.26, include syringes, indigo, spirits oil, plasters, hair brushes, glue, varnish, Down's Elixir, Kedders Pastiles, lime cement, vanilla, and vaseline. Correspondence relates to receipt of, changes to, and charges for shipments, as well as prices of the merchandise. The firm established as Henry & Co. in Waterbury, transferred to Burlington in 1868 and was renamed Wells, Richardson, & Co. in 1872. The firm known for "Diamond Dyes" incorporated as Wells & Richardson Co. in 1883., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Gies & Co., Buffalo, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870-ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.248-262]

Title: Photography under a cloud Perry is selling the nicest lot of fine combs, dressing combs, barber combs and misses circle combs, made from rubber, horn or celluloid; from 5 cts. to $1. Remember Perry's Drug Store, Canastota
Description: Racist trade card illustration depicting a group of barefooted African American men and boys, portrayed in caricature, looking on as a photographer takes a photograph of them. In the left, a boy, attired in a blue jacket, and a man, attired in an orange collared shirt and yellow pants, stand and look at the camera. In the center, a man, attired in a yellow shirt and pink pants, stands directly in front of the camera and peers into the lens. In the right, a boy, attired in an orange shirt and blue pants, crawls toward the scene on all fours. The photographer is crouched under a cloak. Visible in the background is a woman standing beside a cabin., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - P [P.9828.6598]

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