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Title: 'Tis the genuine For samples send professional card to the Antikamnia Chemical Co. (incorporated) St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A. or 46 Holbron Viaduct London, E.C
Description: Advertisement for the Antikamnia Chemical Company established around 1890. Depicts the skull-headed company icon "Funny Bones," wearing glasses, attired in a suit, and holding an "AK" tablet in his hand, and shrugging. Antikamnia (opposed to pain) was a toxic and addictive medicine often mixed with codeine and quinine. Funny Bones was designed by pharmacist and doctor Louis Crucius., Advertising text and list of "Depots" printed on verso. Text reads: A World's Tribute. Progress. Triumph. Some Copy Our "Ads," Others imitate our ideas; Some Copy Our Style, Others Imitate Our Packages; But Copy or Imitate "Antikamnia." They Can't!! The Monogram "AK" Differentiates the Genuine Tablets from All Others and Precludes Substitution. Depot locations include Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Madrid, and Cairo., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Forms part of William H. Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Advertisements [P.2010.37.63]

Title: Electric hobby
Description: Comic genre scene showing the interior of a drug store or pharmacy. Apothecary and medicine bottles line shelves covering the walls and broadsides advertising Ayers Augue Pills, Hair Invigorators, Castoria, and Catarrh treatments hang on the walls and doors. Shows a practitioner shocking his patient with an electro-magnetic device. An amused employee holding a pestle and mortar watches from the doorway., Copyrighted 1872 by F. G. Weller., Title from publisher's imprint on verso., Publisher's imprint printed on verso within decorative border., Tan mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand.
Creator: Weller, F. G. (Franklin G.), 1833-1877
Date: c1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Weller [P.2009.13.1]

Title: [Frederick Brown's Ginger trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards labeled "Cherry Unripe" depicting a woman with a pained look on her face clutching her stomach and "Cherry Ripe" showing a content, pretty woman. Advertises Genuine Brown's Ginger for cramps and colics, stomach-ache, stomache disorders, and indigestion in banners above and below the "Cherry Unripe" illustration., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Brown's Ginger product for family medicine purposes, for "the dyspeptic, and to those who are predisposed to gout or rheumatic affections...and to the inebriate who wishes to reform." Also promotes Brown's Ginger in the fall for comfort from the "first cool chilliness", the winter for the skin "to act well" and in the spring "to add to your back-bone, and make you take interest in life"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Brown [1975.F.79 & 80]

Title: [Drs. Starkey & Palen's Compound Oxygen, 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a sailor steering a boat with his left hand and holding a bottle of Dr. Starkey & Palen's Compound in his right. He wears a red and black striped shirt and a red beret., Title supplied by cataloger., Testimonial printed on verso entitled "The most popular agent" and signed "Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 19. 1886" and "W.H. Worthington"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1887]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Starkey [P.2002.67.1]

Title: London Mfg. Co. essences of meats, 77 & 79 Varick Street, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl wearing a bonnet embellished with flowers and wrapped in large bow under her chin., Advertising text promoting essences of meat (beef, mutton, and chicken) for invalids, dyspeptics, infants, in cases of sea sickness and after child-birth printed on verso with the London Manufacturing Company's trademark symbol., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - London [1975.F.500]

Title: The Shaker extract of roots. Sold by A.J. White, New York City. Office, 29 Murray Street
Description: Envelope containing ornate lettering and details promoting the syrup, also known as Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup, introduced into the market by White circa 1876. White's company, which specialized in the wholesale of Shaker medicines, operated until 1957., Addressed in manuscript to: Martin Kishpaugh Esq, McMichaels, Monroe Co., Pa., Contains three-cent stamp printed in green and depicting a profile portrait of George Washington., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.94]

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: [Thermaline, manufactured by Dundas Dick & Co., New York]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers surrounded by a decorative border., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Thermaline as a remedy for chills and fever, fever and ague, all malarial diseases, liver complaint, dyspepsia, general debility, rheumatism, neuralgia, sick headache, colds, slight catarrh and other pulmonary diseases., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Thermaline [1975.F.875]

Title: Pleis' fit powders & liver pills, Phila. A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Description: Illustrated trade card and holiday greeting card depicting three girls sitting and lying in bed admiring a decorated Christmas tree., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Pleis' fit powders for the cure of fits (epilepsy), spasms, convulsions, St. Vitus' dance, neuralgia nervousness, and all nervous affections. Prepared by John M. Pleis, Jr., 860 North Third St., Philada., Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pleis [1975.F.708]

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: 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: Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia &c. It makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only. Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R.I
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a baby seated in a chair holding a card inscribed "Prof. Horsford's acid phosphate". Includes a small silhouette printed on verso labeled "Count Rumsford". Rumford Chemical Works, established in 1854 by George F. Wilson and Eben Horsford, began manufacturing Horsford's acid phosphate ca. 1868., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Horsford's acid phosphate for dyspepsia, indigestion, headache, mental & physical exhaustion, nervousness, hysteria, and night sweats of consuption. Sold by Louis A. Bates, pharmacist, 739 Sixth Avenue, one door above 42nd Street, New York., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Horsford's [1975.F.436]

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: Use ideal quinine and sulphur soap
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a deer running through a forest., Advertising text printed on verso: Ideal tooth powder 25 c. per bottle. When I go to bed! I can't sleep on account of the terrible itching of my limbs. "Ideal" quinine and sulphur soap will cure this and all other skin diseases. 25 c. per cake. Of your dealer or by mail. Vail Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Ideal [P.9787]

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: For the world of sufferers. For warding off disease. For securing good health. To enjoy cheerful spirits, health, and happiness. Take Simmons Liver Regulator
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a Roman soldier protecting a mother and child and is equipped with a galea or helmet, a sword labeled "regulator" and a shield labeled "Simmons Liver Regulator". He lifts his sword to slay snakes labeled "dypepsia," "fever," "biliousness," and "heartburn". Simmons Liver Regulator was manufactured by J.H. Zeilin & Company., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Simmons Liver Regulator as purely vegetable and a safe family medicine and includes testimonials., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Simmons [1975.F.853]

Title: [Business stationery of Geo. C. Goodwin & Co., patent medicine warehouse, Boston Ma.]
Description: Includes letterhead containing ornamented lettering and two billheads containing ornate lettering, pictorial details, and a decorative border. Details include the firm's trademark comprised of a patent medicine bottle, banner, laurels, and the text "Geo. C. Goodwin & Co. New England Patent Medicine Warehouse." Billheads also contain punch holes upper edge. Geo. C. Goodwin & Co., established in 1839, was incorporated into Eastern Drug Co. 1899-1900., Title supplied by cataloger., P.2011.46.148 completed in manuscript on June 7, 1865 from Geo. G. Goodwin & Co. to Mr. P. M. [Fuchs?], St. John, N.B. about a "gold draft for $300 net...passed to credit the amount four hundred and eight dollars." Contains cancelled two cent stamp depicting portrait of George Washington. Inscribed on verso: G. C. Goodwin & Co. June 7, 1865., P.2011.46.149 completed in type to Mr. S. D. Atwood on April 22, 1899 for several items, including Camphor, LaPage's glue, Hustena, and Warren's Troches for $27.56. Stamped: Received Payment June 12, 1899. Geo. Goodwin & Co. and signed Underhill., P.2011.46.150 completed in type to Mr. S. D. Atwood on June 7, 1899 for several items, including D. Dye, Electro Silicon, Burnett's Ext. Lemon, and Citric Acid for $21.18. Stamped: Received Payment August 23, 1899. Geo. Goodwin & Co. and signed By Underhill., Printed on rectos of P.2011.46.149 & 150: Net Insured against Breakage, Leakage, Loss or Damage of Any Kind; Sold by [ ]. Reg. No. [ ]. Order filled by No. [ ]; All Claims For Shortage Must Be Made Within 3 days After Receipt of Goods., 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. 1860-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - G [P.2011.46.148-150]

Title: Doct. Hoofland's celebrated German bitters, for the permanent cure of liver complaint, jaundice, dyspepsia, nervous debility, asthma, disease of the kidneys, and all diseases arising from a disordered liver or stomach Haupt Depot, German medicine store, 631 Arch St
Description: Label for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene in the wilderness. Depicts a medieval soldier leaning against a tree and his shield. An ax and club rest beneath him. The soldier wears a pony tail and chest plate. Also contains advertising text in German in the side borders. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s., Printed in lower border: Genuine Signed. C.M. Jackson. Philadelphia., Date of printing based on business address advertised., C. M. Jackson began marketing bitters in the United States about 1848. He operated from 418 Arch Street 1858-1859, and then 631 Arch Street. Jones & Evans assumed operations of the office and factory circa 1862., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [printed ca. 1861], c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.190c]

Title: Doct. Hoofland's celebrated German bitters, for the permanent cure of liver complaint, jaundice, dyspepsia, nervous debility, asthma, disease of the kidneys, and all diseases arising from a disordered liver or stomach Haupt Depot, German medicine store, 631 Arch St
Description: Label for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene in the wilderness. Depicts a medieval soldier leaning against a tree and his shield. An ax and club rest beneath him. The soldier wears a pony tail and chest plate. Also contains advertising text in German in the side borders. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s., Printed in lower border: Genuine Signed. C.M. Jackson. Philadelphia., Date of printing based on business address advertised., C. M. Jackson began marketing bitters in the United States about 1848. He operated from 418 Arch Street 1858-1859, and then 631 Arch Street. Jones & Evans assumed operations of the office and factory circa 1862., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [printed ca. 1861], c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.190c]

Title: Doctor Laroch's von Paris, ächte Pillen für die rhumatischen Uebel, &c Das schäzbarste Hülfsmittel fur Rhumatismus, rhumatische Gicht, scorbutische Umstäde, &c. Auszug ans einem Brief des Doctoren Laroche in Paris, an den Doctor M. Lechleitner in Lancaster, Pa
Description: Advertisement, testimonials, and directions for use of Dr. Laroche's rheumatism pills, available from his agent, Dr. M. Lechleitner, in Lancaster, Pa., Dated from typographic evidence., Printed area measures 20.3 x 18.2 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Laroche, Dr.
Date: [between 1830 and 1850?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1830 Laroche 15124.Q(Roughwood)

Title: Dundas Dick & Co.'s compliments. 1776-1876
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Dundas Dick & Co. inset into autumn leaves. Commemorates the Centennial year in 1876., Contains calendars for 1876 and 1877 printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Dundas [1975.F.271]

Title: Use Dalley's magical pain extractor. The great family ointment
Description: Series of whimsical illustrated trade cards depicting a male figure attired in a red, white, and blue scarf standing on a tree branch, reading a book as an ink stand with a feather falls from the tree and another male figure wearing a hat and ruffled collar standing on a reed, holding a hoop through which a frog leaps. Imagery also includes birds, frogs, a scythe, and an hourglass. Henry Dalley, Sr. began manufacturing "Dalley's magical pain extractor" in New York in 1839. Cornelius V. Clickener & Co. assumed control of the product name after Dalley's death in 1852. Henry Dalley, Jr. eventually regained control of his father's product in 1865, about five years after the dissolution of C.V. Clickener & Co., Includes advertising text promoting "the ten reasons" to use Dalley's magical pain extractor printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Dalley's [1975.F.288-289]

Title: Hoofland's German bitters, a pure tonic
Description: Advertisement for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene. Depicts a bearded monk, outside, on his knees, using a bellows to stoke a fire beneath a hanging cauldron in a hearth. A large volume of text lays open, near greenery, in front of him. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.71a]

Title: Hoofland's German bitters, a pure tonic
Description: Advertisement for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene. Depicts a bearded monk, outside, on his knees, using a bellows to stoke a fire beneath a hanging cauldron in a hearth. A large volume of text lays open, near greenery, in front of him. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.71a]

Title: Prof. S. P. Burdict, surgeon chiropodist, office, 1334 Parrish St., Philada Corns removed without pain or drawing blood. All orders by mail, or leaving address, promptly attended to, and families waited on without extra charge. Single visit, $1.00; by the year, $10.00. Immediate relief for corns and bunions. Inverted toe nails, chilblains, frosted feet, and excessive perspiration cured. Club nails, bony tumors, moles, &c., treated, and satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. Prof. Burdict's celebrated compound or cooling mixture for feet; also Grecian salve & bunion lotion, and American corn plaster for sale as above. Office hours--7 to 9, A.M.; 1 to 2 and 6 to 8, P.M. Sundays--3-5, P.M
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a foot., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Burdict [P.2006.20.21]

Title: [Carter Medicine Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a large frog towering over a small, frightened child and a little girl pointing and instructing her ailing grandfather to take Carter's back ache plasters., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos for products made and sold by Carter Medicine Co., including "Carter's little nerve pills" and "smart weed and belladonna back ache pilasters"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Carter [1975.F.131; 1975.F.134]

Title: Dr. Browning's C. & C. cordial. For coughs and colds
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a doctor checking the pulse of a sick man seated in an armchair and attired in a dressing gown and cap. A large bottle of medicine sits on a table next to the doctor., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Dr. Browning's C. & C. cordial for colds, asthmatic coughs, bronchitis croup, and for the relief of consumptives. Also promotes Dr. Browning's tonic and alternative, which "purifies the blood, enriches the blood, [and] improves the appetite." Also informs patrons of Browning's impending move from 1117 Arch Street to 1321 Arch Street after January 1st, 1881., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Browning's [1975.F.75]

Title: Henry C. Blair's Sons, apothecaries, [8th and Walnut Sts.], Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting three robust children in a field. Two of them hoist a large can of "Blair's prepared wheat food" onto a log as the other sits nearby on a wooden fence eating with a bowl and spoon. Men toil in the field near a windmill in the background., Advertising text printed on recto and verso promotes "Blair's prepared wheat food. A nutritious diet for infants and invalids.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Blair [P.9925]

Title: [Tarrant & Co.'s Seltzer Aperient trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "Oh this headache! How foolish I was to travel without Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient," "That dose of Tarrant's Seltzer made it all right for me," "It certainly cools my blood and clears my brain," and "The people's remedy, use it for all disorders of the stomach". Illustrations depict a woman in her nightgown standing next to a bed with a towel wrapped around her head; a man with a round stomach holding his fork and knife up in anticipation of the large meal on the table in front of him; and a man smiling and reading a document at a desk next to a waste bin full of crumpled papers., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Wemple & Company (New York)., One print [P.2002.67.5] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Tarrant's effervescent seltzer aperient as the "best remedy known for all bilious complaints, sick headache, costiveness, indigestion, heartburn, &c.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Tarrant [1975.F.873; 1975.F.876 & 877; P.2002.67.5]

Title: Bought of Breinig, Fronefield & Co. Druggists & chemists, no. 187 North 3rd Street. Wholesale dealers and importers of drugs, medicines, paints, dye stuffs, glass, perfumery &c.&c
Description: Billhead for the drug firm established in 1848 by Dr. Charles Fronefield and Dr. Breinig. Contains vignette showing druggists' apparatus and supplies, including beakers, flasks, a scale, distiller, mortar and pestle, barrels, casks, and crates of oil of vitriol and glass., Completed in manuscript to Mr. J. F. Rambo on August 13, 1853 for two items, including salt petre for $1.26., Manuscript note on recto: Received Payt Breinig, Fronefield & Co., Manuscript note on verso: Aug 13, J. F. Rambo 1853 with Breinig, F. & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads - 1879 (A-D) - B [P.2011.46.278]

Title: Laboratory of Minnie Mueller Tolke, manufacturing chemist. Chemical, dermatological and pharmaceutical preparations. Cincinatti, O Tolke's treatment for the skin and the complexion
Description: Letterhead containing a montage of images including an Athena-like figure, pharmaceutical apparatus, and a woman partaking of a Tolke vaporizer treatment for a "beautiful complexion.", Completed in type on February 17, 1898 to "Dear Friend" from Minnie Mueller Tolke, M.C. soliciting for agents by making an "introductory offer" of her beauty treatment to "one person in each locality" to introduce the product into their local market., 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.2010.37.50]

Title: Sine's tar, wild cherry, and hoarhound. Turkish ladies' noontime amusement, while gathering herbs for Sine's syrup of tar, wild cherry and hoarhound
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting Turkish women, a child and a monkey gathered outside playing with dolls on a string., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Sine's syrup of tar, wild cherry and hoarhound for the cure of coughs, colds, whooping cough, croup, asthma, bronchitis, tickling of the throat and all bronchial affections., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Sine's [1975.F.792]

Title: The American Health Cushion Co
Description: Trade card for The American Health Cushion Co. at 17 South Thirteenth Street, illustrated by colored leaves and acorns., Advertising text and prices printed on verso for products sold by The American Health Cushion Co. including, "The Health Cushion," "The Medicated Chest Protector," and "The Kidney Cushion"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American [1975.F.4]

Title: Dr. Jayne's Building
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 2nd and 3rd, south side, looking east. Includes the Jayne Building (242-244 Chestnut), constructed 1848-1850, based on the designs of Philadelphia architect William J. Johnston for David Jayne, chemist and manufacturer of patent medicines. Six story wings on either side (238-40 and 246 Chestnut Street) were constructed in 1851 and designed by Thomas Ustick Walter. Image also shows the Western Union Telegraph Co. building and includes several horse-drawn carts and wagons., Title and series number from accompanying printed label with stereograph., Stereograph on yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Business [(7)1322.F.69m; (8)1322.F.19f]

Title: Chestnut Street, above Fourth, north side
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, north side, looking west depicting a variety of commercial establishments including Walker & Co.'s cigar store; Kromer's news and patent medicine depot displaying advertisements for Wright's Great Consumptive Cure and Wright's Tar Syrup; William E. Harpur, chromometers; Philip Wilson & Co., gun dealers displaying a rifle three stories high; and Traubel's lithographic establishment., Title and series number from accompanying printed label., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(8)1332.F.19g]

Title: Chestnut above Fourth, North side
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, north side, looking west depicting a variety of commercial establishments including Walker & Co.'s cigar store; Kromer's news and patent medicine depot displaying advertisements for Wright's Great Consumptive Cure and Wright's Tar Syrup; William E. Harpur, chromometers; Philip Wilson & Co., gun dealers displaying a rifle three stories high; and Traubel's lithographic establishment., Reissue of a circa 1868 view entitled "Chestnut St., above Fourth, North side" by Bartlett & French of Philadelphia., Orange mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [P.9573.15]

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: [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: Buckingham's dye for the whiskers
Description: Illustrated metamorphic trade card depicting a before and after bust portrait of a man with a long beard. With the foldout closed, the man frowns through a white beard. With the foldout open, the man smiles through his dyed brown beard., Contains advertising text for R.P. Hall & Co.'s "Buckingham's Dye" and "Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Buckingham's [1975.F.56]

Title: [Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for patent medicines and an almanac created by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts. Illustrations depict sirens with an "Ayer's hair vigor" shipping crate, hair brushes, and product bottles near a wrecked ship and stranded sailors; a girl holding flowers under a cherry tree in the countryside; Penn's Treaty with the Indians in 1682 with two men kneeling and presenting an "Ayer's cherry pectoral" scroll to the Native Americans; and two men and an apprentice with a printing press in a scene labeled "The invention of printing". J.C. Ayer & Co. operated in Lowell, Massachusetts from about 1850 to 1930., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.2; 1975.F.9; 1975.F.11a] contain advertising text on versos for products prepared by J.C. Ayer & Co. including "Ayer's hair vigor" and "Ayer's cherry pectoral"., Printed on verso of print P.9111.11: To Bennie from Aunt Florence George. Eat drink and be merry and now will be happy all of the days of your life., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Ayer [1975.F.2; 1975.F.9a; 1975.F.11a; P.9111.11]

Title: Hall's vegetable Sicilian hair renewer. Prevents gray hairs and baldness
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting seven cherubs fixing the long hair of a woman who is seated outside in the grass. The cherubs carry and hold bottles, fans, and a mirror. Includes doves pulling a wagon full of hair renewer through the air and rabbits in the grass., Advertising text promoting Hall's vegetable Sicilian hair remover and Buckingham's dye for the whiskers printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hall [1975.F.443]

Title: Ask for Liebig Company's extract of meat
Description: Trade card promoting the Liebig Company and showing three Japanese boys, depicted in racist caricature, bowing to an oversized container with a label inscribed: "Extractum carnis Liebig manufactured by the Liebig's Extract of Meat Company limited, London..." Shows the boys, attired in yellow pants; colorful tunics of blue, red, or green; and green and red cloth slip-on shoes, kneeling and bowing. The figure in the middle and in the right wear chonmage haircuts with a braid. In the left, a Japanese-style building and archway are visible. Von Liebig, a German-born chemist, who developed a manufacturing process for meat extract in 1840, established the Liebig Extract of Meat Company in 1865. The extract was marketed as an alternative to meat., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertising business., Advertising text printed on verso: Ask for Liebig Company’s extract of meat. Being the finest meat-flavouring ingredient. None genuine without the fac-simile of Baron Liebig, the inventor’s signature in blue color across the label. Avoid all imitation extracts. Directions. Beef-tea. Efficient tonic in all cases of weakness and digestive disorder. Dissolve a quarter of a tea-spoonful of Liebig Company’s extract in a breakfast cup of boiling hot water, and plenty of salt, this will make a strong and clear beef-tea. You may add according to taste a tea-spoonful of Madeira, Sherry or Port wine or the yolk of a fresh egg, or a trifle of fresh butter or some bread or a boiled potato. A slight addition of Worcestershire sauce is liked by many. This beef-tea acts as a pleasant tonic especially when taken in the morning, and may well be taken several times a day. Soups. A variety of excellent meat and vegetable soups may be made with the aid of the Liebig Company’s extract and any soup will acquire at once strength and fine flavor by a slight addition of extract. Vegetable soup. Potato, pea, rice soup, etc. Boil the vegetables, etc. sufficiently with a little fat, a few bones or some slices of meat, or some fresh butter, add extract and salt according to taste. Sauces. Both strength and flavor imparted by the extract. Night-cap. This beef-tea soothes and settles the stomach, allays brain excitement and induces sleep. “The most admirable and successful Night-Cap.” Dr. Harry Lobb., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Liebig [1975.F.296]

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: [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: [Van Stan's Stratena and Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for products produced by Van Stans Stratena Co. in Philadelphia. One racist card entitled, "Great lecture on Van Stan's Stratena by Julius Augustus Cesar at Ethiopian Hall," after the 1878 Sol Eytinge illustration "Blackville, 1878" depicts an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, lecturing on a stage in front of an audience of well-dressed African American men. The lecturer, attired in a brown jacket, a tan waistcoat, a white shirt with gold cuff links, a white bowtie, blue pants, and black shoes, leans on a wooden table labeled "Van Stan's Stratena." Rolls of paper stick out of his back pocket, and his upturned top hat is visible underneath the table. A decorative object advertising Stratena and a cup sit on the table. He speaks in the vernacular, "one drop of dis yere Stratena on de conscience of a politician will make him stick to his principles. One drop on de marriage certificate will prevent de divorce court from separating you from de wife of your bosom. Do you heah me! Gentlemen I am a talking." Other illustrations include a double-sided metamorphic trade card showing white women and children upset when their objects and toys are broken and happy after using Van Stans Stratena to repair them and, on the other side, two white men and a white woman cringing while taking a dose of cod liver oil, but smiling after taking Van Stan's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. Card shows two white boys' jackets glued together by Stratena after they sat in it. A white boy standing nearby laughs and says, "Ha! ha! ha! No use boys!!! Been sitting in Van Stan's Stratena. Ha! ha! Ha!!", Another series of illustrations entitled, "Marriage a-la-mode. Matter of money," "Marriage a-la-mode. The result," and "The marriage of the future," depicts a white man and woman couple being wed by a white man standing under a sign reading "License marriage fee. $1.00" and a dog standing behind the groom thinking, "I'll be dog-goned if this is anything more than a matter of cur-ency and my privileges are sure to be cur-tailed. Give him a bone." A subsequent scene shows the husband running away from his wife, two children and chaotic household. His wife runs after him with a frying pan as the toddler in the background cries, "Father dear father come home," and the baby, lying on the floor, cries "No one to love me." The final scene shows a wedding ceremony in the "Tabernacle hearts cemented" with the officiator standing before the bride and groom announcing, "with this Stratena I thee wed." The groom replies, "One consolation, if I ever break her heart, I can mend it with Van Stans Stratena." The bride counters, "I'll stick to him through thick and thin.", Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Chas. Shields' Sons (New York) and E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Van Stan's Emulsion of Pure Norwegian Cod-Liver Oil and Van Stan's Stratena cement to repair glass, china, marble, iron, bone, jewelry, jet, coral, leather, wood, earthenware, porcelain, ornaments, lamp shades, metals, Meerschaum pipes, billiard cues, and leather belting., Gift of Emily Phillips, 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., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Van Stan's [1975.F.888-890 & 1975.F.892-894]

Title: [Dr. Jayne's medications trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "The morning prayer," "The talking well," "Le dernière mode," "O Nannie, wilt thou gang wi' me?" and "Little Red-riding-hood" depicting a mother praying with her two children and a pet cat; a woman leaning against a well as her lover spies on her from behind a stone wall; a girl playfully wearing a basket on her head; a woman seated with a dog at her feet as a man stands over her and proposes; and a young girl, Little Red Riding Hood, bundled in a red cape with a basket at her feet., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Dr. Jayne's "carminative basalm" and "tonic vermifuge" for conditions afflicting the bowels; "sanative pills" for bilious disorders and for worms in children; and "expectorant" and "liniment" for colds and lung issues., Trade cards issued by Lancaster Thomas, Nineteenth and Pine Streets, Philadelphia; Mackeown, Bower, Ellis & Co., Tenth and Market Streets, Philadelphia; Alfred B. Taylor, 31 S. Eleventh Street, Philadelphia; and Wm. McIntyre, 2229 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Jayne's [1975.F.487; 1975.F.628; 1975.F.878; 1975.F.884; P.2002.67.15]

Title: [Wm. F. Simes & Son trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. F. Simes & Son, proprietors of the "little gem corn & bunion remedy", at 1102 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a couple embracing and reeling in a large fish; a woman and three anthropomorphic owls reading and standing on a thin tree branch; a girl reeling in a fish twice the size of her own body; a man with a large, bulbous nose standing next to a stork on a beach, looking toward the ocean where a male fairy flies to retrieve a hat floating in the water; a Native American female cherub kneeling before a small Greek statuette; a male cherub playing a banjo and synchronizing the movements of a tiny ballerina doll to the music with a string attached his leg; a male cherub picking flowers and observing a dragonfly; and a male suitor standing next to the bench where his female companion is seated., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.858] copyrighted 1882 by [illegible?], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Simes [1975.F.755-759; 1975.F.789; 1975.F.815; 1975.F.858]

Title: Scrapbook
Description: Scrapbook possibly compiled by Fanny Keene containing trade cards, sentiment cards, holiday cards, rewards of merit, die cut and embossed scraps, and a temperance pledge card primarily issued in New England. Majority of the contents are chromolithographs and some contain trompe l’oeil, embossed, die cut and overlay designs. Pictorial themes include landscape, marinescape, seasonal, residential and genre views; women and children; fruits and flowers; animals (cats, dogs, mice, and birds); comic scenes; and portraiture, including Frances Folsom Cleveland. Several of the holiday cards contain religious passages and sentiments and several of the trade cards advertise sewing machines, patent medicines, soaps, and J. & P. Coats thread. Scrapbook also contains series of Arm & Hammer (i.e., Church & Dwight Co.) trade cards depicting different species of birds., Other business establishments and products advertised include A. Stowell & Co., jewelers (Boston); California Fig Syrup Co.; C. F. Santelle, stationery (Rockland, Me.); C. I. Hood & Co., tooth powder; Electric Lustre Starch; E. W. Hoyt & Co., cologne; F. M. Evertleth, M. D., druggist (Waldoboro, Me.); Household Sewing Machine Company; Ingall’s Throat and Lung Specific; Kendall Mfg. Co. soapine; Lydia E. Pinkham; Mansion House (Troy, N.Y.); Munson’s 99 Cent Store (Boston, Ma.); The New Home Sewing Machine; R. H. Stearns & Co., department store; Rush’s Sasparilla and Iron; Stickney and Poor’s Mustard; M. A. Packard & Co., shoes; Vegetine; W. H. Levansaler & Co., wool; and Whittemore, Bros & Co, shoe gloss., Blue paper binding printed in color with a marinescape view and pictorial and border details. Also contains chromolithograph overlay showing a young lady carrying a basket., Some of contents inscribed Fanny Keene, Jessie Keene, Mrs. Annie Leland., Printers include New England and Mid West firms Bufford; Calvert Lith. Co; Crosker & Co.; Donaldson Brothers; Knapp & Co.; Mayer, Merkell & Ottman; and W. J. Morgan & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box.
Date: ca. 1885-ca. 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9763]

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]

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