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Title: Purgen, Japan’s superiority over other oriental countries is indicated by the enlightenment of its medical profession, which prescribes in habitual constipation the pleasant and certain hydragogue laxative Purgen
Description: Advertisement for Lehn & Fink's patent medicine and depicting a group of Japanese men, women, and boys. In the left, shows the man, attired in a blue-striped kimono and sandals, holding a wooden tray and blowing colorful bubbles that float up. A young boy runs and looks up at the bubbles. A woman, attired in a white hat, purple patterned kimono with a red obi, and sandals, walks with a boy who carries a branch of cherry blossoms. Next two women, attired in white hats and a gray kimono with a black obi and a purple kimono with a red obi, walk and talk together. In the right, the Japanese man, wearing a chonmage hairstyle and attired in a gray kimono and sandals, walks carrying a red bundle and a branch of cherry blossoms. A cherry tree, with a red-and-white striped banner tied to it, has a flowering branch that extends across the top of the print. Library Company copy has five Imperial Japanese Post stamps. Louis Lehn (1838-1915) and Frederick W. Fink (1846-1925) founded Lehn & Fink in New York in 1874., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the advertised business., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Series II - Advertisements [P.2010.37.71]; Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Print Collection - Advertisements [P.2012.29.58].
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Series II - Advertisements [P.2010.37.72]

Title: Finnerty's, the champion of all root beer extracts, 15c. per bottle. 106 Market Street
Description: Racist trade card promoting E.J. Finnerty Jr. & Co.'s patent medicines and depicting a crying African American baby that is suspended from a tree branch. In the center of the image is a baby, attired in a white onesie, that has a white cloth wrapped around their midsection and tied to a blooming cherry tree branch. The baby's eyes are tightly closed, their mouth is open wide, and they grasp a branch of cherry blossoms with their left hand. A straw hat also is on the tree branch. E.J. Finnerty (1863-1901) was a druggist in Philadelphia. He created the firm Finnerty, McClure & Co. in 1891 and continued in the trade until his death., Title from item., Advertising text printed on verso: Go to the old reliable drug store, 106 Market St. Philadelphia, for pure drugs and medicine at the lowest prices. We make a specialty of compounding Physicians' Prescriptions, with great care and promptness. A full line of Perfumes and Toilet Articles always on hand. We will also continue the manufacture and sale of the following well-known and highly recommended remedies: Finnerty's W.C.&H. Expectorant, . Per bottle. Price, 25c. The best remedy for coughs, colds, etc. Finnerty's Beef, Iron and Wine, ... " 50c. The great nutritive tonic. Finnerty's Sarsaparilla, ..." 50c. The best blood purifier. Penn's White Linament, ... 25c. The great rheumatic remedy. Finnerty's Essence Ginger, ... " 25c. The reliable remedy for colic, nausea and debility. Finnerty's Cramp and Diarrhoea Mixture, ... " 25c. A sure cure for cholera morbus and stomach troubles. Finnerty's Liver Granules, ... " 25c. No better in the markey. Finnerty's Catarrh Remedy, ... Per Box 25c. Will cure catarrh, cold in the head and hay fever. Michner's German Dyspepsia Lozenges, ... " 50c. The greatest remedy known for the cure of dyspepsia. E.J. Finnerty, Jr. & Co. Druggists and Manufacturing Chemists., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Finnerty [P.2017.95.63]

Title: "Father, I cannot tell a lie: I cut the tree"
Description: Genre scene of the fictitious moment when the young George Washington confesses to his father, Augustine, a plantation owner, that he cut a cherry tree on their Virginia plantation. Depicts Washington's father holding his son's hand and comforting him. George looks up at his father and points his left hand towards the cut tree in the right. On the ground is an ax and an upturned hat. In the background, an enslaved African American man plows the pasture with a team of oxen, and an enslaved African American man and woman couple stands near the gate of a cottage, probably their dwelling., Title from date., Date based on the active dates of engraver., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1978., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: McRae, John, engraver
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Washington [8384.F.16]

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