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- Title
- Milk: What Milk to Buy and How to Care for it in the Home
- Description
- Photographs of healthy, well-nourished infants and young children adorn this educational circular produced by the New York Milk Commitee. Aimed at parents and caretakers, the circular contains guidelines for the purchase, storage, and preparation of milk as part of a child's healthy diet.
- Subjects (LC)
- Milk, Infants, Children, Nutrition, Bottle feeding
- ID
- mk1e042
- Geographic Subject
- New York. New York City.
- Collection
- New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection
- Title
- Chocolat de l'Abbaye d'Igny
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising chocolate manufactured in France.
- Subjects (LC)
- Surgery
- Manufacturer
- Chocolat de l'Abbaye d'Igny
- Language
- French
- ID
- WH219
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Lawrence and Martin's Tolu
- Manufacturer
- [Lawrence and Martin], [s.l.]
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH293
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Everybody says the Botanical Preparations are the Best
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising herbal remedies produced by the Excelsior Botanical Company.
- Subjects (LC)
- Children playing
- Manufacturer
- Excelsior Botanical Co. (Boonville (N.Y.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH263
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- A Simple Catechism [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Slaven's Effervescent Fruit Salt, a remedy for digestive ailments.
- Subjects (LC)
- Dolls, Monocles, Top hats
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH353
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- H.R. Steven's Family Balsam
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Familine, a cure-all remedy.
- Subjects (LC)
- Roses
- Manufacturer
- H.R. Stevens (Boston (Mass.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH265
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Milk: Its Value to the Home, Its Care in the Home
- Description
- An eight-page pamphlet (a single sheet folded into eight pages) produced by the New York Milk Committee, emphasizing milk's importance as a "family food." Images of healthy children, cows in verdant fields, and milk surrounded by produce reinforce the central message of milk's vital role in maintaining and promoting children's health. Nutritional comparisons between milk and other foods are provided, as are instructions for the proper selection, storage, and use of milk. Members of the Milk Committee's Standing Committee on Milk Consumers are listed at the top of the last page.
- Subjects (LC)
- Milk, Infants, Nutrition, Education, Child rearing
- ID
- mk1e043
- Geographic Subject
- New York. New York City.
- Collection
- New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection
- Title
- Nature's Pleasant Laxative
- Description
- Folded trade card printed on two sides advertising Syrup as Figs as a laxative. Edges are decoratively trimmed.
- Subjects (LC)
- Fig trees, Harvesting, Orchards
- Manufacturer
- California Fig Syrup Co (San Francisco (Calif.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH242
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Recipes and Remedies: Manuscript Cookbooks
- Description
-
The Library holds about 40 manuscript receipt books in its collections. Many of the manuscripts contain a combination of culinary recipes, home remedies, and recipes for things like cosmetics and substances that would be used to accomplish general household tasks such as cleaning and polishing. Others are solely medical, containing formularies for the compounding of various remedies. This digital collection contains eleven English-language manuscript receipt books that were compiled between the seventeenth and the late nineteenth centuries in which the majority of the collected recipes are culinary in nature, but many recipes for home remedies are discoverable here as well.
Funding for the conservation and cataloging of the 31 culinary manuscripts was provided by the Pine Tree Foundation in 2012. Funding for the digitization of this group of English-language manuscripts was provided by the Pine Tree Foundation in 2019.
- Title
- Educational Materials
- Title
- Horsford's Acid Phosphate
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Horsford's Acid Phosphate "for mental and physical exhaustion, dyspepsia, etc."
- Subjects (LC)
- Accordions, Children dancing
- Manufacturer
- Rumford Chemical Works (Providence (R.I.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH276
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- This Brief Notice May Save Long Illness, Suffering, and Expense [from verso]
- Description
- Illustration of religious edifice near bridge; floral nosegay at border.
- Subjects (LC)
- Birds, Castles and palaces, Flowers, Snow, Winter
- Manufacturer
- E. Hartshorn & Sons, [s.l.]
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH274
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- One Month Doesn't Make a Summer
- Description
- This postcard states that "731 babies [were] saved in July," and reproduces excerpts from the August 2, 1911 editions of the New York Globe, the New York Herald, the New York American, and the New York World to remind readers that the reduction in infant mortality must be continued in August. On the back, an illustration of a healthy baby accompanies quotations advising readers about "what can be done" to help babies and reminding them that "while there's care there's hope."
- Subjects (LC)
- Infants, Mortality, Summer, Nutrition, Weather, Health, Municipal government, Statistics, Statistics, Milk
- ID
- mk1e008
- Collection
- New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection
- Title
- Invalid Ladies This Is For You [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Burdock Blood Bitters as a remedy for diseases of womanhood.
- Subjects (LC)
- Boats, Bridges, Rivers
- Manufacturer
- Foster, Milburn & Co. (Buffalo (N.Y.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH239
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- I Don't
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising un-named medicine [laxative?]. Poem on verso.
- Subjects (LC)
- Children, Children crying
- Manufacturer
- Dr. Harter Medicine Co. (St. Louis (Mo.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH273
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Milk and Human Kindness
- Description
- This New York Milk Committee leaflet depicts a baby drinking milk from a bottle and advises parents to "keep baby well by keeping the milk clean, covered, and cold." The leaflet encourages the substitution of foods necessary for the war effort with dairy products. The back page includes portraits of 18 healthy babies and reminds parents that "The Nation That Has The Babies Has The Future...Save Them and Nourish Them Well." The front image was provided by the New York Evening Journal.
- Subjects (LC)
- Milk, Infants, War--Economic aspects
- ID
- mk1e044m001
- Geographic Subject
- New York. New York City.
- Collection
- New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection
- Title
- Anatomy and Surgery
- Description
- A collection of texts on anatomy and surgery, covering the anatomical atlas, anatomical proportions, illustrations of the arteries, surgical procedures, and treatment of head wounds.
- Title
- La Tisane Cisbey [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Tisane Cisbey as a remedy for digestive ailments and skin disease.
- Subjects (LC)
- Castles and palaces
- Manufacturer
- Laboratoire Cisbey (Paris (France))
- Language
- French
- ID
- WH248
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dirt in Loose Milk Shops
- Description
- This postcard produced by the New York Milk Committe's Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality reprints a July 26, 1911 NY Evening Post article entitled, "Dirt in Loose-Milk Shops." The article recounts the findings of the Committee's investigations, in coordination with the New York City Department of Health, into the bacterial contamination of milk sold in bulk. On the postcard verso a photo of sickly baby fed on contaminated milk is contrasted with the photo of a healthy baby under the question,"Is It Worth the Difference?"
- Subjects (LC)
- Milk, Food adulteration and inspection, Infants, Milk hygiene, Food contamination, Food spoilage
- ID
- mk1e013
- Geographic Subject
- New York. New York City.
- Collection
- New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection
- Title
- Carte de Visite Collection
- Description
-
The collection consists of 223 late 19th and early 20th century photographs of national and international figures in medicine and public health. It was digitized by the Metropolitan New York Library Council's (METRO) Culture in Transit project and is part of the Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York (DCMNY) website.
This collection contains portraits both of lesser known individuals and of famous New York physicians, such as Abraham Jacobi, Lewis Albert Sayre, Willard Parker, Stephen Smith, Emily Blackwell, and Valentine Mott, as well as of many with international reputations: Robert Koch, Louis Pasteur, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, and others. New York photographers took a number of the photographs; others were created by the New York offices of such establishments as Mathew Brady, as well as by photographers in Paris, Berlin, and London.