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- 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
- Ayer's Cathartic Pills, a safe, pleasant and reliable Family Medicine
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cathartic Pills featuring seven cherubic, naked babies handling oversized pill boxes and such with the words Ayer's Pills on them. Some babies are wrapping the items, some are pasting labels onto them, and some are filling them with pills. 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, Dizziness, Headache, Indigestion, Jaundice
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Babies
- ID
- WH121
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Who Said Hood's Sarsaparilla?
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring three babies in white frocks crawling towards the customer. A quote on the bottom reads "Who said Hood's Sarsaparilla?" The back explains the benefits and curative properties of Hood's Sarsaparilla.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Body Fluids, Headache, Salt Rheum, Scrofula
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Babies, Portraits
- ID
- WH151
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil featuring a Russian flag. The flag is yellow and contains a symmetrical image of a brown eagle wearing a red crown and holding one scroll in its beak and one scroll in its talon. The back lists the times it takes Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil to cure various ailments.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Backache, Burns And Scalds, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Deafness, Earache, Throat—Diseases, Toothache
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Flags, Russia
- ID
- WH181
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cathartic Pills, a safe, pleasant and reliable Family Medicine
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cathartic Pills featuring seven cherubic, naked babies handling oversized pill boxes and such with the words Ayer's Pills on them. Some babies are wrapping the items, some are pasting labels onto them, and some are filling them with pills. 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, Dizziness, Headache, Indigestion, Jaundice
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Babies
- ID
- WH122
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- In every Home much sickness and suffering can be prevented by the discreet use of Parker's Ginger Tonic
- Description
- Trade card advertising Parker's Hair Balsam, Parker's Ginger Tonic, and Hindercorns featuring two young children. The girl, on the left-hand side of the card is looking at the customer with her hands around the back of her neck. She is wearing a red-and-white top of some sort. The boy, on the right-hand side of the card is in profile and is wearing a golden wreath of laurels. The back lists the benefits of each item advertised and contains customer testimony.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Acne, Asthma, Body Fluids, Bronchitis, Bunion, Cold (Disease), Corns, Dandruff, Diarrhea, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Itching, Malaria, Rheumatism, Warts
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Children, Wreaths
- ID
- WH317
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Naylor Products
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Naylor Products featuring two black-and-white images of various products, one in the top, left corner, and one in the bottom, right corner.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Blisters, Diarrhea, Indigestion, Lungs—Congestion, Pediculosis, Thrush (Mouth Disease), Wounds And Injuries
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Containers
- ID
- WH314
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Naylor Products
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Naylor Products featuring two black-and-white images of various products, one in the top, left corner, and one in the bottom, right corner.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Blisters, Diarrhea, Indigestion, Lungs—Congestion, Pediculosis, Thrush (Mouth Disease), Wounds And Injuries
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Containers
- ID
- WH315
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Increase Your Resistance with Wampole's Preparation: Tonic and Stimulant for Young and Old
- Description
- Trade card advertising Wampole's Preparation featuring three charts with average weights on them as well as a box and bottle of Preparation. Behind the latter two is an illustration of wintry elements that reads: "Wind. Rain. Sleet. Snow." These elements are anthropomorphized above a group of people.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Weather
- ID
- WH373
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Wampole's Preparation: Tonic and Stimulant
- Description
- Trade card advertising Wampole's Preparation featuring a selection of eight birds. In the middle is a box and a bottle of Wampole's Preparation. The card's border is a ruler.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Weather
- ID
- WH374
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dundas Dick & Co.'s Compliments of the Season, 1875
- Description
- Trade card from Dundas Dick & Co. featuring a greeting card with writing that reads: "Dundas Dick & Co.'s Compliments of the season, 1875." Surrounding this card are autumnal leaves. The back features a nineteenth-century calendar.
- Subjects (LC)
- Acorns, Advertising—Medicine, Leaves, Nature
- ID
- WH261
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Hood's Sarsaparilla
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring the face of a young woman bursting through a newspaper titled "Hood's Latest." She has rosy cheeks and short, curly hair. The back outlines Hood's Sarsaparilla's ingredients and curative properties. The back also contains quotes from satisfied customers.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Bad Breath, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Body Fluids, Catarrh, Headache, Indigestion, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Scrofula
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Newspaper Layout And Typography
- ID
- WH141
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Going for Kendall's Spavin Cure
- Description
- Trade card advertising Kendall's Spavin Cure featuring a horse pulling a man who is being pulled by a dog. The man is straddled around a wooden stake, holding the horse's reins. The dog has a spotted collar and is biting the man on his rearend. The back features testimony from satisfied customers.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Dogs, Horses, Men, Nature
- ID
- WH167
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Wheat Bitters
- Description
- Trade card advertising Wheat Bitters featuring an exhausted-looking man in a shroud reclining in a chair reaching out his hand towards another man who is carrying an oversized bottle of Wheat Bitters towards him. The back explains how Wheat Bitters works and how it can cure various illnesses.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Fever, Malaria
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Costume, Domestic Scenes
- ID
- WH195
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies the Blood, Makes the Weak Strong, Creates an Appetite
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring a young girl resting her chin in her hands on a pink-colored ledge with Hood's Sarsaparilla written on it. She is wearing a blue dress with white frills at the cuffs and a white garment on her head. She has a gold ring on the ring-finger of her right hand and short, dark-brown bangs. The back is an advertisement for a concert and variety program.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Children, Children's Clothing, Portraits
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH142
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Mentholatum Gives Comfort Daily
- Description
- Trade card advertising Mentholatum featuring a triptych of women applying mentholatum for various ailments.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cold (Disease)
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Health, Self-Care, Women
- ID
- WH169
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Mentholatum Gives Comfort Daily
- Description
- Trade card advertising Mentholatum featuring a triptych of women applying mentholatum for various ailments.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cold (Disease)
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Health, Self-Care, Women
- ID
- WH170
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Yours for Health Lydia E. Pinkham
- Description
- Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring the portrait of an elderly woman gazing into the distance towards the left-hand side of the card. She has a lace shawl pinned around her shoulders and neck. The back lists the ailments the items can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Brooches, Clothing And Dress, Lace And Lacemaking, Portraits, Shawls
- ID
- WH188
- 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
- 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