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- Title
- The Conclusion of the Matter [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising compound oxygen, to be inhaled as a treatment for disease and debility.
- Subjects (LC)
- Corsets, Interiors, Women
- Manufacturer
- Drs. Starkey and Palen (Philadelphia (Pa.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH250
- 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
- Ayer's Sarsaparilla Gives Health and Sunny Hours
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla featuringan image of a woman in an elegant pink gown standing in a sunny field and balancing a young child on her shoulder. The back shows an image of a bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla with a wreath around its neck and text explaining its curative properties.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Lymph Node, Tuberculosis
- Subjects (LC)
- Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Nature, Sarsaparilla, Toddlers, Women, Women's Clothing
- ID
- WH110
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Put Upon Their Feet [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides, advertising Burdock Blood Bitters.
- Subjects (LC)
- Collars, Feathers, Hats, Women
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH131
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, a syrup for colds and coughs.
- Subjects (LC)
- Cherries, Hats, Women
- Manufacturer
- J.C. Ayer & Co. (Lowell (Mass.))
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH225
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Sarsaparilla Purifies the Blood, Stimulates the Vital Functions, restores and preserves Health…
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla featuring an image of two women in dresses around a table outdoors. The woman on the left is in a pink dress, sitting in a padded chair and resting her hand on a bottle on the table. The woman on the right wears a blue dress and hat and leans against a pillar with an urn of flowers on it. Two children play with a dog by their feet. The back shows an image of a bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla with a wreath around its neck and text explaining its curative properties.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Acne, Erysipelas, Furuncle, Indigestion, Jaundice, Lymph Node, Neuralgia, Peptic Ulcer, Rheumatism, Ringworm, Tuberculosis, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Dogs, Flowers, Sarsaparilla, Women, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH113
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Pildoritas
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Reuter's pills for the treatment of liver complaints and digestive ailments.
- Subjects (LC)
- Women
- Manufacturer
- Reuter, [s.l.]
- Language
- Spanish
- ID
- WH336
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. Seth Arnold's Balsam
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Seth Arnold's Balsam featuring two elderly women sitting at a table upon which is a bottle of the Balsam and a drinking glass. They are both in shawls and bonnets. At the feet of the lady on the left is a grey cat. Behind them is a standing clock, a dresser, and a blue door. The back lists the ailments the Balsam can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cholera, Deciduous Teeth—Eruption, Diarrhea, Diarrhea, Infantile, Dysentery
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Bottles, Bows, Cats, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Domestic Space, Drinking Glasses, Dwellings, Ethnic Costume, Hats, Women, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH390
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Richmond Memorial Hospital
- Description
- Color postcard with front view of Richmond Memorial Hospital on Staten Island. Shrubs are seen on the fenced-in lawn, one large tree stands to the right. Two police officers stand in front of the brick building, next to a mailbox, and a woman stands at the front entrance. | Handwritten message on back reading "Billy Ana Harold."
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Richmond County, Richmond Memorial Hospital, Richmond University Medical Center, Mailboxes, Trees, Shrubs, Lawns, Streets, Police, People, Women
- ID
- nycsi_016
- Geographic Subject
- Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- Side View, Kings County Hospital
- Description
- Color postcard showing a side view of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. Hedges and trees line the side and front of the red brick building. A woman in a white dress is walking in front of the hospital. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten message on front: "From Emily, Helen & [Gotthiel?]."
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Kings County, Kings County Hospital (Kings County, N.Y.), Trees, Women, People, Hedges, Shrubs
- ID
- nycbk_062
- Geographic Subject
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- The Jerseys [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl flanked by two milk cows. She is facing the audience and carrying a metal pail in her left hand. She is wearing a pink dress with white accents and a white bonnet. The cows are light brown, and all three figures are in a field with mountains and a sunset behind them. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cows, Dairy Cattle—Feeding And Feeds, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Forests And Forestry, Grasslands, Mountains, Nature, Pitchers, Sunset Phenomena, Trees, Women, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH163
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- The Jerseys [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Vermifuge, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl flanked by two milk cows. She is facing the audience and carrying a metal pail in her left hand. She is wearing a pink dress with white accents and a white bonnet. The cows are light brown, and all three figures are in a field with mountains and a sunset behind them. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cows, Dairy Cattle—Feeding And Feeds, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Forests And Forestry, Grasslands, Mountains, Nature, Pitchers, Sunset Phenomena, Trees, Women, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH164
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- The Jerseys [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl flanked by two milk cows. She is facing the audience and carrying a metal pail in her left hand. She is wearing a pink dress with white accents and a white bonnet. The cows are light brown, and all three figures are in a field with mountains and a sunset behind them. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cows, Dairy Cattle—Feeding And Feeds, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Forests And Forestry, Grasslands, Mountains, Nature, Pitchers, Sunset Phenomena, Trees, Women, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH284
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Mentholatum
- Description
- Trade card advertising Mentholatum, marked with ruler and three images of ladies applying liniment.
- Subjects (LC)
- Grooming, Women
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH302
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Three Most Reliable Remedies: Athlophoros For Rheumatism and Neuralgia, Athlo-Ointment For Sprains, Lameness, Sore throat...
- Description
- Trade card advertising Athlophoros, Athlo-ointment, and Athlo-tablets. Card features an image of a woman in a gauzy red dress holding a fan in one hand and a long necklace in the other.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Constipation, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sprains, Throat—Diseases
- Subjects (LC)
- Clothing And Dress, Fans, Necklaces, Women
- ID
- WH102
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ager's Dry Hop Yeast Is the Best in Use
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ager's Dry Hop Yeast, featuring an image of two boys sledding past a woman who is carrying an umbrella, a basket, and a pail and balancing three additional baskets in a stack on her head. The woman appears disheveled and wears a shawl and a kerchief over her head. A third child watches in the background. The ground is snow-covered, and the figures are in front of a stone wall. The picture is tinted red.
- Subjects (LC)
- Baskets, Boys, Boys' Clothing, Children, Clothing And Dress, Coats, Kerchiefs, Pails, Shawls, Sleds, Snow, Stone Walls, Umbrellas, Winter, Women, Women's Clothing, Yeast
- ID
- WH107
- 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