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Title: Jew David's Plaster
Description: Gift of William H. Helfand, 2017., Round metal container of the patent medicine Jew David’s plaster. Reads on the lid, “Jew Davids, Plaster, E. Taylor, Rochester, N. York.”
Creator: Taylor, E.
Date: 19th century
Location: OBJ 911

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: Medicine bottle
Description: Patent medicine bottle made in amber glass. Reads along the side of the bottle, Dr. H.S. Thacher’s Cholera Mixture Chattanooga, Tenn. Diamond embossed on the base. Henry Savage Thacher (1826-1898) was a chemist and apothecary who founded the Thacher Medicine Company in 1890. John Lupton bought the company in 1910, and the FDA later shut it down in the 1930s. The American Medicine Association and the federal government declared Dr. Thacher’s medicines to be quackery, that they made false and fraudulent claims, and that the ingredients were misbranded., Gift of Charles E. Rosenberg, 2017.
Creator: Thacher Medicine Company
Date: Late 19th -early 20th c
Location: OBJ 904

Title: Swaim, James
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: October 9, 1830

Title: Dr. George Stuart's botanical syrup and vegetable pills, the greatest family medicine in the world. [graphic].
Description: Location: 254 Race Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: ca. 1849.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W098.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W98 [P.2147]

Title: Dr. Hoofland's celebrated German bitters and balsamic cordial. Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, 418 Arch St., Philadelphia. [graphic].
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Jackson occupied this building in 1858 and 1859.
Date: ca. 1858.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W099.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W99 [P.2144]

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: [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: 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: Swaim, William
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: May 12, 1829

Title: [Abraham Lincoln caricature satirizing the draft]
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist caricature satirizing the forced conscription of the poor and immigrant classes unable to pay for substitutes during the Civil War. Shows Abraham Lincoln feeding a bottle of the "Black Draft" to a haggard looking man who sits with his feet in a tub. The bottle of "Black Draft" contains figures of African Americans., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln.
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Bispham - Caricatures and cartoon [5792.F.4g]

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: 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: 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: 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: Amer ican hair dye warranted Prepared only by Dr. D. Jayne, No. 8 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Proprietor of Jayne’s Hair Tonic, which besides being a delightful perfume, will increase the growth [sic] & beauty of the hair, and prevent it from falling off. No gentleman or lady’s toilet should be without it
Description: Advertisement containing a full-length portrait of a Native American standing in a clearing in the woods. He holds a bow in one hand and points to the sky with the other. A bundle of arrows is partially visible from above his shoulder and he wears a feathered headband. An ornamental border surrounds the image., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00027, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 9, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Advertisements
Creator: Dacre, Henry, b. ca. 1820, artist
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Advertisements

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: 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: 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: [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: "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: Williams anti-dyspeptic elixir. Prepared by Dr. James Williams, no. 4 South Seventh Street, 3 doors below Market St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a vignette view captioned "Sine Labore Nihil" and ornate side border details. View shows a druggist working in his laboratory surrounded by equipment, including distilleries, a mortar and pestle, and mason jars. Border details depict floral and bird imagery, including a nest. Williams first produced the elixir in the late 1830s, then discontinued production until the late 1840s, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Poor condition from transference., See Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1849 for a testimonial advertisement for the elixir.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 10 [(10)2526.F.69]

Title: Brown's Vermifuge Comfits, or Worm Lozenges Much sickness undoubtedly with children and adults, attributed to other causes, is occasioned by worms
Description: One testimonial dated Jan. 27, 1864., Printed area measures 19.9 x 13.2 cm., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Curtis & Brown
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Curtis 15210.Q

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: 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: Schlichter & Zug, Proprietors. 929 Market Street, Philadelphia If you wish for perfect health use the National Bitters
Description: Advertisement showing a bust-length portrait of a beautiful young woman looking over her bare shoulder and holding an open book beside her face displaying the text "If you wish for perfect health use the National Bitters." She wers her hair in pincurls and tied back with a pearl hair clip. She also wears a pearl necklace and a pearl earring., Copyrighted by Schlichter & Zug., Manuscript note on recto: No. 611., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 204
Date: c1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [8092.F]

Title: Mishlers Garden Gold and sodium will cure all kinds of female complaints. To purify the blood it is warranted. Dr. Benjamin Mishler, Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa
Description: Advertisement showing the medicinal garden of patent medicine dealer Benjamin Mishler. A family and couple stand near the arched entrance of "Mishlers Garden" between two red stone buildings, possibly offices. Past the arch, women enter an enclosed promenade running through the center of the garden of trees, roots and plants. A yellow fence surrounds most of the property, except a section that is bordered by Lion Brewery, possibly another user of the garden. Also contains two promotions signed by S. H. Warwick, 324 N. Eighth St., Philadelphia offering $500 to any "graduated physician" who has a better cure than Mishler's Preparation of Gold and Sodium to "purify the blood" or treat "Syphilis, Scrofula, and Leprosy.", Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 148, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 39 M 678
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 39 M 678

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]

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