Items

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: A laconic narrative of the life and death of James Wilson, known by the name of Daft Jamie; to which is added, a few anecdotes relative to him and his old friend Boby Awl, an idiot who strolled about Edinburgh for many years
Description: Chapbook that has been disbound and mounted in a window-pane style. Illustrated.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

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: Valentine's Twelfth Key
Description: In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry learns that the alchemist Nicolas Flamel successfully created the philosopher's stone; in reality, reports of Flamel's reputation as an alchemist and immortal were greatly exaggerated. Jean-Jacques Manget's Bibliotheca Curiosa, published in 1702, compiled many alchemical texts and included Basil Valentine's The Twelve Keys. Valentine's work offered twelve plates that symbolically depicted methods to achieve the philosopher's stone. In this last operation, the final step in realizing the stone, a sun and moon illuminate a laboratory where an alchemist stands in front of a blazing furnace and tends to two roses, as a lion devours a snake.
Collection: How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course

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: Letter to the Lord advocate, disclosing the accomplices, secrets, and other facts relative to the late murders; with a correct account of the manner in which the anatomical schools are supplied with subjects
Description: Pamphlet, disbound and mounted.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Pomet's Unicorns
Description: If you visit Mr. Mulpepper's or Slug & Jiggers Apothecary in Diagon Alley, among the remedies available for a few scant Galleons is unicorn horn. In his comprehensive catalog of plants and animals used for medicinal purposes, the French apothecary Pierre Pomet identifies five species of unicorns, though he is quick to admit that most unicorn horns sold in shops are probably from narwhals. Narwhal or not, these horns were worn as protective amulets, used to cure fevers and rout poisons. They were also displayed as curiosities in pre-Revolution-era France.
Collection: How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course

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: 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: 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: 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: 33. Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers : measurements of the heads of the most notorious thieves confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell, and of various individuals, English, Scotch, and Irish, presenting an extensive series of facts subversive of phrenology
Collection: The Resurrectionists

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: 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

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