Items

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: Red Star Cough Cure
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Red Star brand cough remedy.
Subjects (LC): Actors, Daggers and swords
Manufacturer: Red Star Cough Cure
Language: English
ID: WH335
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: 17. Confessions, lamentations, & reflections of William Burke, late of Portsburgh, who is to be executed at Edinburgh, on the 28th January, 1829, for murder, and his body given for public dissection
Description: Ballad, illustrated. Cut and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Dr. Ingham's Nervine Pain Extractor
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Dr. Ingham's Nervine Pain Extractor, a general purpose painkiller recommended for gastroenterological diseases.
Subjects (LC): Fans, Kissing, Vines
Manufacturer: Dr. H.A. Ingham and Co. (Vergennes (Vt.))
Language: English
ID: WH280
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Jame's Pyle's Pearline
Description: Trade card printed on two sides, advertising Pearline detergent.
Subjects (LC): Children and animals, Dogs
Manufacturer: James Pyle, [s.l.]
Language: English
ID: WH319
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: A Fact Worth Remembering [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides, advertising Cashmere Bouquet toilet soap.
Manufacturer: Colgate & Company (New York (N.Y.))
Language: English
ID: WH134
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Use Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, a remedy for digestive ailments.
Subjects (LC): Baskets, Girls
Manufacturer: Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient
Language: English
ID: WH362
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: 28. Riot at Dumfries! Hare's arrival : a full and particular account of the reception of William Hare, one of the West Port murderers, at Dumfries, on Friday morning last, on his way to Ireland!
Description: Cut in two and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: 15. Subscription for the benefit of James Gray and his wife : a letter to the editor of the Caledonian Mercury
Description: Letter signed "Candidus." An appeal for donors to sign the subscription books and donate sums of money to the aid of James Gray and his wife, dated "Edinburgh, 15th January, 1829." With an advertisment for "a full and correct report of the trial of Burke and M'Dougal." Advertisement is dated "22 January, 1829." Printed on the recto and verso of a single leaf.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Thermaline
Description: Trimmed face of trade card advertising Thermaline; illustration of nosegay of roses, forget-me-nots, lilies of the valley etc.
Language: English
ID: WH363
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Use Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor, an analgesic. "Since 1840 it has never failed to give satisfaction."
Subjects (LC): Horse racing
Manufacturer: Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor
Language: English
ID: WH256
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for "feminine ailments."
Manufacturer: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (Lynn (Mass.))
Language: English
ID: WH325
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Pain Ceases Immediately [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Carter's Electric Nerve Pencil, a electromagnetic device for reducing pain.
Subjects (LC): Children, Meadows
Manufacturer: C.E. Carter (Lowell (Mass.))
Language: English
ID: WH243
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Cole's Carbolisalve
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising antiseptic soap and liniment.
Subjects (LC): Boats, Courtship, Lakes and ponds
Manufacturer: J.W. Cole and Co. (Black River Falls (Wis.))
Language: English
ID: WH249
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Brown's Globe Pills [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Brown's Globe Pills, an analgesic.
Subjects (LC): Barns, Villages
Language: English
ID: WH234
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: K.D.C. is a Positive Cure for Indigestion and Dyspepsia
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising K.D.C., a remedy for dyspepsia and indigestion.
Subjects (LC): Bridges, Cherry trees, Winter
Manufacturer: K.D.C. Co. Ltd. (Boston (Mass.))
Language: English
ID: WH288
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: 24. Hare's dream! : describing the apparitions of Burke and others, which appeared to him while in the Calton Jail
Description: Ballad, cut and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

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