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Title: John F. Patton, York, Penn'a
Description: Trade card promoting John D. Patton and depicting a catamaran with a dragon on the sail. Shows a vignette of a wooden catamaran with a red sail decorated with a dragon traveling on the water. Four men, attired in white shorts, sit and stand on the boat. A large crane and other birds fly in the sky. Vignette is set over a red background with decorative leaves and a scroll with the advertising text. John F. Patton relocated to York, Pennsylvania from Baltimore and started his drug business in 1869., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Advertising text printed on verso: You will never go amiss, if you go to Wallick’s Book Store, to make your purchases, books and stationery, pictures & frames, and a great variety of fancy goods. Remember Wallick’s Book Store. The city drug store is the best place in York, to buy drugs, medicines, chemicals, toilet articles, perfumery, &c., &c. and John F. Patton, is the man to sell them to you, and don’t you forger it., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Patton [P.9828.6582]

Title: F.P. Louderbough, graduate in pharmacy, cor. Tenth & Jefferson Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Trade card promoting pharmacist F.P. Louderbough and depicting racist caricatures of two Chinese men and a crane. In the left, shows the Chinese man, attired in a yellow robe with a red sash around the waist, standing and holding a pot by the handle in his right hand. To the right, the Chinese man, wearing a mustache and goatee and attired in a black hat, yellow robe, and a pink shirt with long sleeves, holds a bowl towards a crane. Decorative border surrounds the scene., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Series no. on recto: 1700., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Louderbough [P.9828.6373]

Title: F.P. Louderbough, graduate in pharmacy, cor. Tenth & Jefferson Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Trade card promoting pharmacist F.P. Louderbough and depicting racist caricatures of Japanese acrobats. Shows four barefooted, Japanese men, attired in red patterned kimonos, balancing, swinging, and flipping on two bamboo beams., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Series no. on recto: 1700., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Louderbough [P.9828.6374]

Title: Compliments J.C. Rushton, Rushton's Pharmacy, Racquet Club Building, New York
Description: Trade card promoting J.C. Rushton's pharmacy. Shows a blue and white porcelain vase and bowl decorated with flowers in front of red grass. In the bottom are three flying cranes. Decorative geometric border surrounds the card., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Advertising text printed on verso: J.C. Rushton’s celebrated cold cream of roses. Fine toilet colognes, comprising thirty different odors, surpassed by none in the world. Lily White, perfumed with wood violet, sachet powders. The choicest odors for letter paper, glove boxes, wardrobes, etc., etc. Perfumed camphor ice with glycerine. [?]rine lotion, an indispensable article [?] to allay irritation after shaving. [?]air tonique de ricine a la quinine, a delightful tonic dressing for the hair, stopping it from falling, and making it pliant, soft and glossy. Glyco Bayline can be used where there is no oil wanted. It is combined of glycerine, it is composed of glycerine, Bay Rum, &c. Sweet Hyacinth Pomade, from pure, fresh marrow, and perfumed with the flowers. Floral tooth paste, unequalled for its preservative qualities and delightful fragrance. Saponine. The above article in poweder. Peruvian saponaceous, camphorated, orris, charcoal and other dentifrices. Indelible ink. The above are manufactured at my chemical laboratory, Racquet Club Building, 6th Avenue, Cor. 26th Street, N.Y. And forwarded to any address on application., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: Berman Trade Card Collection - Patridge's [P.2015.56.662]
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Rushton [P.9828.6704]

Title: C.C. Hughes, druggist & chemist, S.W. cor. 8th & Race Sts., Phila
Description: Trade card promoting druggist C.C. Hughes in the style of trompe l'oeil depicting a landscape with ships and a vignette portrait of a Japanese woman portrayed in caricature. Shows a landscape view with people standing on a path leading to a pagoda on a cliff. In the right, ships sail on the water. In the background are mountains. In the left, shows the Japanese woman wearing her hair up and decorated with Kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in gold hoop earrings; a yellow, patterned kimono with red trim; and a black obi. A green parrot sits on her left arm. Decorated border surrounds the scene., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1881 by Geo. M. Hayes., Advertising text printed on verso: Alhambra hair restorer. Restores gray hair to its natural color with three or four application, making it soft and beautiful; removes dandruff and itching of the scalp; prevents premature baldness; stops hair from falling out; will not soil the finest linen: an excellent dressing, nicely perfumed. Price, 75 Cts., large bottle. Manufactured by C.C. Hughes, druggist & chemist, S.W. Cor. Eighth and Race Streets, Philadelphia. Hughes’ Corn & Bunion Plasters. Give instant relief and effect a cure. (They are not pads to relieve the pressure.) Each 25 cents per box; 12 corn or 6 bunion in each box. Sent by mail on receipt of price. C.C. Hughes, Druggist, Eighth and Race Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand., RVCDC
Creator: Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Hughes [P.9828.6166]

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