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- Title
- Ayer's Ague Cure
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Ague as a cure for fever, ague, and all malarial disorders. Illustration of swallows and water lillies in the background.
- Subjects (LC)
- Swallows, Water lilies
- Manufacturer
- J.C. Ayer & Co. (Lowell (Mass.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH223
- 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
- Title
- Greek Church
- Description
- A Greek Orthodox church in Agios Georgios, Cyprus.
- Subjects (LC)
- architecture, building, church, orthodox, religion, traditional, water
- Geographic Subject
- greece, cyprus, mediterranean, sea
- Title
- Buy it, Try it, and be Happy! Morse's Dyspepsia Cure, Holliston, Mass.
- Description
- Trade card advertising Morse's Dyspepsia Cure featuring an image of a lighthouse and a sailing ship in choppy waters. Text at bottom reads "Eddy Stone Light House." The back lists ailments that Morse's Dyspepsia Cure helps.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Headache, Heartburn, Indigestion, Palpitation
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Lighthouses, Sailboats, Sailing Ships, Water Waves
- ID
- WH177
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies the Blood: Be Sure to Get Hood's
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring a landscape and a portarit of a young woman. The landscape shows a forest with a river. The portrait is of a young woman with flower berrets in her hair with matching earrings. She is wearing a blue dress with a white-framed neckline and a dark-blue ribbon on her right shoulder. She has long, light-brown hair. These images are framed by light-red flowers. The back advertises vaudeville acts.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Earrings, Embankments, Flowers, Forests And Forestry, Hair Ornaments, Hairstyles, Portraits, Ribbons, Trees, Water, Women's Clothing
- ID
- WH145
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Hair Vigor for the Toilet: Restores Gray Hair to its Natural Vitality and Color
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Hair Vigor featuring five mermaids, four of whom arein the forefront in various stages of using Ayer's Hair Vigor. The fifth is swimming off to a ship that seems to be capsizing in the background. The back has an image of an Ayer's Hair Vigor bottle and two brushes. It also lists the ailments Ayer's Hair Vigor helps combat.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Baldness, Dandruff
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Bottles, Flowers, Hair, Hair—Care And Hygiene, Hairbrushes, Mermaids, Ocean, Ocean—Folklore, Ocean—Mythology, Plant-Water Relationships, Sailboats, Sailing Ships, Women
- ID
- WH125
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- River Crest, A Sanitarium for Mental and Nervous Disease
- Description
- Color postcard with view of several buildings at River Crest Sanitarium in Queens from a driveway. An outdoor pavilion, water tower, trees, a fence, plus three large buildings can all be seen. Full offerings of the sanitarium and the names and titles of the president and physician in charge are in an inset box at top surrounded by scrollwork. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten address on back to Dr. H. B. West of South Norwalk, Conn.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Queens County, River Crest Sanitarium (Staten Island, N.Y.), Sanatoriums, Rehabilitation centers, Substance abuse treatment facilities, Mental health facilities, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Trees, Water towers, Driveways, Pavilions, Kindred, J. Joseph, Dold, William Elliott
- ID
- nycq_038
- Geographic Subject
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)