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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
