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- 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
- Your Cough or Cold can be Cured by Using Hartshorn's Cough Balsam
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hartshorn's Cough Balsam featuring an image of a tree with songbirds. In the background there is a body of water with a house on the shore. The back outlines why Hartshorn's Cough Balsam has gained popularity in the past, the ailments it cures, and the price.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Influenza, Lungs—Congestion, Pneumonia, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Birds, Carriage Houses, Nature, Trees, Water And Architecture
- ID
- WH137
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup, Bronchitis, Whooping-Cough, and Consumption
- Description
- Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an image of a young girl standing under a cherry tree looking at two birds in the tree. A house and hills are visible in the distance and there are flowers in the foreground. The back has an image of a hand pouring out a spoonful of medicine from a bottle and text listing the benefits of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Birds, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Flowers, Hats, Nature
- ID
- WH114
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards