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 promotes various products made and sold by J.C. Rushton from his business in the Racquet Club Building, 6th Avenue, cor. 26th Street in New York, including Rushton's celebrated cold cream of roses, fine toilet colognes, lily white, sachet powders, perfumed camphor ice with glycerine, glycerine lotion, tonique de ricine a la quinine, glyco bayline, sweet hyacinth pomade, floral tooth paste, saponine, Peruvian saponaceous, and indelible ink., 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]
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]
