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- Title
- Burdock Blood Bitters
- Description
- Trade card advertising Burdock Blood Bitters featuring a portrait of a woman in elegant dress with a red, feathered hat that is adorned with a large B pin of sorts on which is written Burdock Blood Bitters. She is wearing gold jewelry, including a choker with a B on it. Her dress is blue with lilies on it, and she has a small rose pinned to the front of her dress. The back has testimony from satisfied users.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Croup, Hemorrhoids, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Feathers, Flowers, Gold Jewelry, Portraits, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH241
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Cas-car-ria is made by a distinguished chemist [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Cas-car-ria featuring a young girl and a dog chasing devil-esque creatures, labeled as various ailments, into a body of water. The girl is wearing a bright pink dress and holds a switch in her hand. The dog is large and brown and white. The back quotes a piece by Lord Roscommon.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Children, Cliffs, Demonology, Devil, Dogs, Folklore, Grasslands, Mythology, Staffs (Sticks, Canes, Etc.), Trees, Water
- ID
- WH244
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Nearly 50 Years the Favorite: Piso's Cure a Medicine for Coughs, Colds Etc.
- Description
- Trade card advertising Piso's Cure featuring a woman pulling a red-headed boy over a wooden fence by the back neck of his shirt. His hat is falling off, and he is barefooted. She is blond and is wearing a small, brown hat. There are fruit trees on the woman's side of the fence. The back is a blank template for a postcard.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cold (Disease), Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Fruit Trees, Hats, Nature, Trees, Wooden Fences
- ID
- WH330
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- We Always Keep in Our Drug Store a Supply of Boschee's German Syrup & Green's August Flower [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower featuring a space in which there is some writing. This space is surrounded by various blue, red, and pink flowers. The back lists the ailments the Syrup and the Flower can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Constipation, Cough, Croup, Headache, Heartburn, Indigestion, Palpitation, Tuberculosis
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers
- ID
- WH231
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, Cures All Diseases of the Stomach Liver & Blood
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid and Bellanodyne featuring a sign that reads: "Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid, cures all diseases of the stomach, liver, & blood. Small doses, prompt effect." The sign has a bouquet of flowers inserted in it. In the foreground is a body of water with two frogs and three ducks. The back is obscured, but lists the ailments the Liveraid cures and mentions a pain-relieving plaster called Bellanodyne.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract-Diseases, Constipation, Headache, Indigestion, Malaria, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Acquatic Animals, Advertising—Medicine, Amphibians, Animals, Ducks, Flowers, Frogs, Grasslands, Nature, Trees, Water, Water Lilies
- ID
- WH270
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Nearly 50 Years the Favorite: Piso's Cure a Medicine for Coughs Colds Etc.
- Description
- Trade card advertising Piso's Cure featuring a scene of two men constructing or deconstructing a wooden dock on the Allegheny River. A red-wheeled wheelbarrow on the bank holds wooden planks. There is an island in river that has a red-and-white house. There are forested hills on the farther shorelines. The back is a blank template for a postcard.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cold (Disease), Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Carpenters, Carts And Carriages, Hats, Housing, Islands, Marshes, Nature, Trees, Water, Woodworkers
- ID
- WH329
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cures Colds, Coughs & all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an oversized bottle labeled Ayer's with two children at its side. The boy, on the left, is sitting and touching the bottle with his right hand and holding a spoon in his left. He is wearing a white tunic and red-and-white-striped socks. The girl, on the right, is standing, ostensibly trying to reach the top of the open bottle with her right hand, which holds a spoon. She is wearing a white, frilled dress, white stockings, a white bonnet tied with a blue ribbon, and blue Mary Janes. There is an enlarged branch with cherries on it in the top, left corner, and another, smaller sprig in the bottom, center. The back has images of two hands, one pouring a bottle, and one holding a spoon to catch the liquid. Listed on the back are the ailments Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cures.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Influenza, Laryngitis, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Cherry, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Nature, Spoons
- ID
- WH119
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
- Description
- Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring a young girl holding hands with two boys on either side of her. The three figures are ice skating. In the lower, right corner is a dog who also seems to be ice skating. There is a leafless tree on the right of the card with a thermometer overlayed on top of it. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Diphtheria, Inflammation, Neuralgia, Pneumonia, Rheumatism, Throat—Diseases
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Costume, Dogs, Dress And Clothing, Ice Skating, Thermometers, Trees, Winter
- ID
- WH339
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cathartic Pills: the Country Doctor
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cathartic Pills featuring an African-American man sitting with a little girl on his knee and a little boy sitting on the ground by his feet. The man is in formal attire, including a hat and eyeglasses, and is holding a pill box with the word Ayer's on it in his left hand and a pill in his right hand. The little girl is in a red-and-white, polka-dot dress and is holding a leaflet titled Ayer's Pills. The boy is looking up at them and holds something in his right hand. At the man's feet and the boy's knees is an open medicine case filled with Ayer's products. The back has an image of a bottle with name of the manufacturer on it: J.C. Ayer and lists what ailments Ayer's Cathartic Pills cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Diarrhea, Dizziness, Dysentery, Edema, Gout, Headache, Heartburn, Hemorrhoids, Indigestion, Jaundice, Nausea, Neuralgia, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, African American Children, African American Men, African Americans, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Eyeglasses, Families, Men's Clothing, Old Age
- ID
- WH120
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- The Toll Gate
- Description
- Trade card advertising a book titled "The Sexual System and its Derangements" featuring an image of a donkey in a barn. A man's head peeks out from a window overlooking the donkey from within the barn. There is a fence between the viewer and the donkey that seems to read "Buffalo NY." There are various hidden images in the leafless trees that surround the barn. The back praises the book being advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Depression, Dizziness, Fatigue
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Donkeys, Hats, Trails, Trees, Wooden Fences
- ID
- WH254
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- The Morse Indian Root Pills
- Description
- Trade card advertising Morse's Indian Root Pills featuring text explaining why potential customers should take them. The back is blank save for linear designs on the top and bottom.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine
- ID
- WH305
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
- Description
- Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring two couples crossing paths in a park. Both couples are formally dress and wearing hats, which the men of each couple are tipping to each other. Between them is a bench. In the distance is a carousel. In the farthest distance are mountains. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Backache, Bruises, Bunion, Burns And Scalds, Catarrh, Chilblains, Fatigue, Furuncle, Hemorrhoids, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sprains, Wounds And Injuries
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Benches, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Ethnic Costume, Garden Walks, Grasslands, Hats, Men's Hats, Merry-Go-Round, Parks, Trees, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH342
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cures Coughs Colds &c: Penn's Treaty
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an image of a meeting between seven colonists (William Penn and others) and seven Native Americans. The Native Americans sit and stand to the left, and the colonists on the right present two scrolls that read "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and Cures Colds, Coughs, &c." William Penn is holding a medicine bottle. The image is loosely based on Benjamin West's oil painting "The Treaty of Penn with the Indians." The back has an image of hands pouring medicine into a spoon in the upper left and text listing the curative properties of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Influenza, Laryngitis, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Ethnic Costume, Hats, Indians Of North America, Indigenous Peoples, Men, Treaties
- ID
- WH117
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Take Hood's Sarsaparilla: 100 Doses One Dollar
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring an image of a child surrounded by large dogs. The child wears a riding hat and an oversized red coat and carries a whip. "Take Hood's Sarsaparilla. 100 Doses One Dollar" is printed on the floor near the child's feet. The back has testimonial and text describing the composition of Hood's Sarsaparilla.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Catarrh, Indigestion, Salt Rheum, Scrofula
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Children, Children's Clothing, Costume, Dogs, Portraits, Whips
- ID
- WH147
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Catarrh, Neuralgia & Headache No More! Cushman's Menthol Inhaler Cures Diseases of the Head Including Hay-Fever, Colds & Bronchitis
- Description
- Trade card advertising Cushman's Menthol Inhaler featuring a young woman smoking. She is wearing a feathered hat with long-sleeved shirt or dress with ruffled sleeves, a bodice, and a wrapped garment around her bosom and neck. The back explains what the inhaler is, its price, and has an illustration of a woman looking over her back, right shoulder at the buyer while she smokes. The card is tinted brown.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Bronchitis, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Hay Fever, Headache, Neuralgia
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Inhalers, Portraits, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH136
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Words of Comfort [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring three women and one man sitting around a table. The man is reading a book and is in formal dress and wearing eyeglasses. The three women seem interested in and puzzled by what he is reading. There is a vase on the table, and the backdrop seems to resemble some sort of living room or study area. The back lists the benefits of the Expectorant and the Tonic Vermifuge.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Bad Breath, Cold (Disease), Cough, Fever, Headache, Helminths, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Books, Costume, Domestic Space, Dress And Clothing, Dwellings, Ethnic Costume, Eyeglasses, Families, Men, Men's Clothing, Women, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH159
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Parker's Ginger Tonic: the Best Health and Strength Restorer
- Description
- Trade card advertising Parker's Ginger Tonic, Parker's Hair Balsam, and Floreston Cologne featuring a text-based panel flanked by two images of men. The one on the left features a man bending over in what seems to be a coughing fit. The one on the right features a man at peace who seems to have just taken the Tonic being advertised. The back lists the benefits of each item advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cough, Dandruff, Indigestion, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Men, Men's Clothing, Men's Hats
- ID
- WH180
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Boyd's Miniature Galvanic Battery, For the effectual cure of nearly all diseases [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Boyd's Miniature Galvanic Battery featuring a blank card where one might presumably write an address. Tucked into the card is a bouquet of small, blue-and-pink flowers with one, larger red flower. The back details how to get more illuminated cards by purchasing Boyd's products.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers
- ID
- WH232
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cures Colds, Coughs & all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an oversized bottle labeled Ayer's with two children at its side. The boy, on the left,is sitting and touching the bottle with his right hand and holding a spoon in his left. He is wearing a white tunic and red-and-white-striped socks. The girl, on the right, is standing, ostensibly trying to reach the top of the open bottle with her right hand, which holds a spoon. She is wearing a white, frilled dress, white stockings, a white bonnet tied with a blue ribbon, and blue Mary Janes. There is an enlarged branch with cherries on it in the top, left corner, and another, smaller sprig in the bottom, center. The back has images of two hands, one pouring a bottle, and one holding a spoon to catch the liquid. Listed on the back are the ailments Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cures.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Influenza, Laryngitis, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Cherry, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Nature, Spoons
- ID
- WH118
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Mother Swan's Worm Syrup
- Description
- Trade card advertising Mother Swan's Worm Syrup, Wells' Complete Cure, Wells' May Apple Pills, Wells' Health Renewer, and Buchu-Paiba featuring various illustrations related to the different items advertised. There is a picture of a swan with its children, a picture of a dead rat, and a picture of a man leaning his head back and opening his mouth. The back is a blank template for a postcard.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Agitation (Psychology), Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Fever, Helminths, Impotence, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Rats, Swans, Water
- ID
- WH376
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards