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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: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Description: Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier featuring an evening, winter landscape in which one can see two figures walking over a bridge. The bridge is over a small body of water, and there is a full moon in the sky. The back lists the benefits of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Backache, Body Fluids, Depression, Mental, Erysipelas, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Scrofula, Tumors
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bridges, Nature, Snow, Trees, Water
ID: WH184
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: This Brief Notice May Save Long Illness, Suffering, and Expense, and Even Life Itself! [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Hartshorn's Sarsaparilla and Iron and Hartshorn's Flavoring Extracts featuring a wintry landscape with a castle. There is a bouquet on the left with white, red, and blue flowers and a snow-covered branch with pink-blue-white-and-yellow birds flying around its branches. There is a bridge over a small body of water in the lower, right corner. The back describes the curative properties of the products advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Body Fluids
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Birds, Bridges, Castles, Crosses—Cult, Daisies, Flowers, Holy Cross, Mansions, Nature, Roses, Snow, Trees, Water And Architecture, Winter, Winter
ID: WH392
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: This Brief Notice May Save Long Illness, Suffering, and Expense, and Even Life Itself! [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Hartshorn's Sarsaparilla and Iron, featuring an image of a castle surrounded by a snowy landscape with trees, a small river, and a bridge. On the left, this image is framed with a bouquet of flowers. On the right, it is framed with snowy branch and flying songbirds. The back lists the benefits of taking Hartshorn's Sarsaparilla and Iron, and the price.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Birds, Bridges, Castles, Crosses—Cult, Daisies, Flowers, Holy Cross, Mansions, Nature, Roses, Snow, Trees, Water And Architecture, Winter, Winter
ID: WH138
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Toll Gate No. 4 [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising a book titled "The Sexual System and its Derangements" and the medicine Cutavaco featuring a landscape with various hidden images in it. The obvious things the picture presents are a man walking on a path with a dog; a bridge over water with a figure rowing a boat beneath it; a house at the entrance to the bridge with a figure leaning against its side; and a town on a mountain in the distance. The back praises the book being advertised and also lists the ailments Cutavaco can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Acne, Bad Breath, Baldness, Bites And Stings, Catarrh, Cholera, Ear Infection, Eczema, Edema, Erythema, Helminths, Leucorrhea, Measles, Pediculosis, Poison Ivy, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Scarlatina, Scars, Shingles (Disease), Smallpox, Throat—Diseases, Typhoid Fever, Urticaria
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Alligators, Animals, Birds, Bridges, Camels, Cows, Dogs, Flies, Geese, Goats, Horses, Housing, Insects, Monkeys, Nature, Peacocks, Rabbits, Rodents, Snails, Swans, Trails, Trees, Water
ID: WH252
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Metropolitan Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard showing a slightly elevated view of Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan with surrounding streets, parking lots, and parked cars visible. In the far right background, a portion of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triborough Bridge) over the East River can be seen. | Postcard sent with four-cent Abraham Lincoln stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Phyllis to her aunt Miss Eliza C. Gray in Johnstown, N.Y. She says she has only two months left as a student at the hospital, after having been there four years.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Metropolitan Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.), Automobiles, Parking lots, Streets, Triborough Bridge (New York, N.Y.), Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (New York, N.Y.), East River (N.Y.)
ID: nycm_279
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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