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Title: Diet for Child from 2 to 3 Years
Description: New York Milk Committee information card describing the recomended diet for a child aged 2 to 3 years. The card provides alternative menus for the child's breakfast, mid-morning snack, dinner, and supper.
Subjects (LC): Children, Nutrition, Food, Menus
ID: mk1e032
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Diet for Child from 3 to 6 Years
Description: New York Milk Committee information card describing the recomended diet for a child aged 3 to 6 years. The card provides alternative menus for the child's breakfast, mid-morning snack, dinner, and supper.
Subjects (LC): Children, Nutrition, Food, Menus
ID: mk1e033
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: La Gigue: Old Dr. Samuel F. Stowe's Dyspepsia Cure or Compound Medicated Lozenges
Description: Trade card advertising Old Dr. Samuel F. Stowe's Dyspepsia Cure or Compound Medicated Lozenges featuring a boy in nautical dress facing the customer. His blue hat has a red feather in it and reads: "Normond." He seems to be standing on a dock. Behind him are an anchor and capsized sailboat.
Conditions Cured (LC): Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Anchors, Boats And Boating, Boys, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Hats, Ocean, Sailboats, Sea Life
ID: WH361F
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: La Gigue: Old Dr. Samuel F. Stowe's Dyspepsia Cure or Compound Medicated Lozenges
Description: Trade card advertising Old Dr. Samuel F. Stowe's Dyspepsia Cure or Compound Medicated Lozenges featuring a boy in nautical dress facing the customer. His blue hat has a red feather in it and reads: "Normond." He seems to be standing on a dock. Behind him are an anchor and capsized sailboat.
Conditions Cured (LC): Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Anchors, Boats And Boating, Boys, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Hats, Ocean, Sailboats, Sea Life
ID: WH360F
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Old Dr. Samuel F. Stowe's Dyspepsia Cure or Compound Medicated Lozenges
Description: Trade card advertising Old Dr. Samuel F. Stowe's Dyspepsia Cure or Compound Medicated Lozenges featuring a young child sitting on a red pillow in a high chair. On the high chair's tray is a puppy whose foot is bleeding. The child is repairing it.
Conditions Cured (LC): Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Chairs, Children, Children's Clothing, Dogs, Infants, Puppies, Wound Healing, Wounds and Injuries
ID: WH359F
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Morses
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a young boy in what looks like formal military attire drinking out of an oversized glass. The boy is wearing a hat with a feather in it and has a horn in his belt.
Conditions Cured (LC): Headache, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Costume, Drinking Glasses, Feathers, Hats
ID: WH311
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Ed. F. Brown, Druggist
Description: Trade card advertising druggist Ed. F. Brown featuring exotically-dressed figures in a townscape. Three are in the foregound: two are inspecting goods from the third, who is sitting on a straw mat trying to sell them fruits and vegetables. There is a castle in the background. The left-most, foregrounded figure is carrying a sword in his belt.
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Castles, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Costume, Ethnic Costume, Fruits, Hats, Leaves, Swords
ID: WH206
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: L. C. Smith, Druggist, Rockville, Conn.
Description: Trade card advertising a druggist named L. C. Smith featuring a young boy leaning up against a tree reading, and a young girl standing behind him, touching his hair with a sprig of flowers. The two are in a grassy area with rocks and bushes.
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Books And Reading, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Grasslands, Hats, Nature, Rocks, Scarves, Trees
ID: WH204
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Trix Breath Perfume
Description: Trade card advertising Trix Breath Perfume featuring an image of the feet of a boy and a bullfrog protruding from a body of water. The boy's hat rests on the water in the foreground, and the movement of his fishing pole indicates he has just fallen into the water.
Conditions Cured (LC): Bad Breath
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Bullfrog, Children, Children's Clothing, Fishing, Mountains, Perfume, Typha, Water
ID: WH194F
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Trix Breath Perfume
Description: Trade card advertising Trix Breath Perfume featuring an image of a young boy standing at the water's edge and pointing at a bullfrog. The boy is wearing overalls and a hat and carrying a fishing rod with bait.
Conditions Cured (LC): Bad Breath
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Bullfrog, Children, Children's Clothing, Fishing, Mountains, Perfume, Typha, Water
ID: WH193F
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: Ager's Dry Hop Yeast Is the Best in Use
Description: Trade card advertising Ager's Dry Hop Yeast, featuring an image of three figures: a boy, a woman, and a man in a top hat. They are in front of a high stone wall in the snow. The boy carries boots and the man carries an umbrella. The picture is tinted red.
Subjects (LC): Boots, Boys, Boys' Clothing, Children, Clothing And Dress, Coats, Hats, Men, Men's Clothing, Snow, Stone Walls, Umbrellas, Winter, Women, Women's Clothing, Yeast
ID: WH106
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 three figures: a boy, a woman, and a man in a top hat. They are in front of a high stone wall in the snow. The boy carries boots and the man carries an umbrella. The picture is tinted green.
Subjects (LC): Boots, Boys, Boys' Clothing, Children, Clothing And Dress, Coats, Hats, Men, Men's Clothing, Snow, Stone Walls, Umbrellas, Winter, Women, Women's Clothing, Yeast
ID: WH105
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry
Description: Trade card printed on one side, advertising Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, a remedy for respiratory ailments. Illustration of young girl administering medicine to doll in bassinet.
Subjects (LC): Children playing with dolls
Manufacturer: Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry
Language: English
ID: WH383F
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Kendall M'f'g. Co.
Description: Trade card printed on one side advertising laundry detergent. Illustration of boy punting in boat made of a half walnut shell. Card torn across lower right corner.
Subjects (LC): Children, Nutshell
Manufacturer: Kendall Manufacturing Co. (Providence (R.I.))
Language: English
ID: WH290F
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Shelter Roof of the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard with view of the interior roof solarium at New York Nursery and Child's Hospital in Manhattan. Children sit on stools in front of cribs and three nurses are seen in the background. | Inset image on top back of a child with the caption: "A 'Boarding Out' Baby." | Postcard sent with one-cent George Washington stamp. | Handwritten message on back from A. H. M. to M. A. Newberry in Ann Arbor, Mich., asking how school is going and mentioning a heavy snowstorm.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Nursery and Child’s Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Children -- Hospitals, Hospital wards, Children, Roofs, Sunspaces, Beds, Nurses, Women nurses, Cribs (Children's furniture), Stools
ID: nycm_345
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: The Lloyd I. Seaman, Floating Hospital of St. John's Guild [from back]
Description: Black-and-white postcard with an image of the hospital ship Lloyd I. Seaman, The Floating Hospital of St. John's Guild, and its patients, presumably on the East River. There is a view of buildings in the background. | Caption at top left of back describes the ship and its mission. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Floating Hospital (Long Island City, New York, N.Y.), St. John’s Guild (New York, N.Y.), Mothers, Children, East River (N.Y.), Rivers, Hospital ships, Lloyd I. Seaman (Barge), Hospitals, Convalescent, Children -- Hospitals, Pediatrics
ID: nycm_237
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: German Hospital
Description: Color postcard showing a view of German Hospital in Brooklyn, a five-story brick building with a set of entrance stairs under a stone archway, as seen from a vacant lot across the street. Children play stickball in the right foreground; trees edge the front sidewalk and the building's right side. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Barbara to her cousin Miss Anna Wintish in Ellenville, N.Y., saying that she will write on Sunday.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Kings County, German Hospital and Dispensary in the City of New York, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.), Stone buildings, Vacant lands, Children, Trees, Streets, Sidewalks, Stairs
ID: nycbk_046
Geographic Subject: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Title: The School Room at Bellevue, K-6
Description: Black-and-white postcard showing an interior view of the schoolroom at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan with children saluting an American flag. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Bellevue Hospital, Hospital schools, Flags -- United States, Boys, Girls, Children, Wheelchairs, Desks, Classrooms, Schools, Education, Morrison, Wm. B.
ID: nycm_041
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: New York Bay, St. John's Guild, Sea Side Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard with view of the St. John's Guild Seaside Hospital on Staten Island. The hospital's porch runs the length of the first floor and an American flag flies on the roof. Children play in the water under the supervision of a person in a boat. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Richmond County, St. John’s Guild (New York, N.Y.), Seaside Hospital, Children -- Hospitals, Swimming, Porches, Boats and boating, Beaches, Trees, Flags -- United States
ID: nycsi_024
Geographic Subject: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)

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