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Title: Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cures Colds, Coughs, and all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs
Description: Trade card advertising Ayer's Cherry Pectoral featuring an image of a girl in a dress using her hat to carry cherries and holding a sprig of cherries in her hand. She is in a field with hills and water in the distance. The back has an image of a hand pouring out a spoonful of medicine from a bottle and text urging people to treat various ailments with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
Conditions Cured (LC): Cold (Disease), Cough
Subjects (LC): Clothing And Dress, Fruit, Girls, Nature, Women's Hats
ID: WH116
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Compliments of The Athlophoros Company
Description: Trade card advertising Athlophoros, which is a remedy for rheumatism and neuralgia. It features an image of a young girl resting her chin on her hands and wearing a fancy dress, wide brim hat with a feather, and fingerless, lace gloves. The back describes rheumatism and neuralgia, along with the history and benefits of Athlophoros.
Conditions Cured (LC): Neuralgia, Rheumatism
Subjects (LC): Children, Feathers, Girls, Gloves, Hats, Lace And Lacemaking, Women's Hats
ID: WH101
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. A.C. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Dr. A.C. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure, a remedy for coughs and colds.
Subjects (LC): Bouquets, Girls, Hats
Manufacturer: Dr. A.C. Hoxsie
Language: English
ID: WH277
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Keller's Sure Cure
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Keller's Sure Cure, a panacea in tonic form.
Subjects (LC): Girls
Manufacturer: [Joseph Keller], [s.l.]
Language: English
ID: WH289
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: La Marée Montante, Au Secours!!
Description: Trade card featuring druggists John H. Sheehan & Co. featuring four figures playing on a shore. There are two boys and two girls. The boys seem to be helping the girls get to and from a large boulder without getting their clothes wet. There are sailboats in the background. The back lists the company advertised and its address.
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Boats And Boating, Bows, Boys, Children, Children's Clothing, Girls, Marine Algae, Nature, Ocean, Ribbons, Rocks, Sailboats, Water
ID: WH211
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Les Veillées—La Soirée Musicale
Description: Trade card featuring druggist John H. Sheehan & Co. featuring five formally-dressed figures playing music in a well-furnished house. One girl is playing the piano while another figure plays a stringed instrument. There are flowers in blue vases atop the piano. The back lists the company advertised and its address.
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Bows, Children, Children's Clothing, Costume, Domestic Scenes, Ethnic Costume, Fans, Flower Vases, Flowers, Girls, Musical Instruments, Piano Ensembles, Ribbons, Rugs, Stringed Instruments
ID: WH210
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam
Description: Trade card printed on one side with illustration of two girls in a garden setting, holding a lady's fan open before them. "Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam will cure a cough in one day and the croup in one minute."
Subjects (LC): Fans, Girls, Hats
Language: English
ID: WH259
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Prof. Fair's Hair Care [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Prof. Fair's hair tonic, a remedy for greying and thinning hair.
Subjects (LC): Girls, Milk, Pails
Manufacturer: Prof. Fair (Providence (R.I.))
Language: English
ID: WH264
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Seeing New York
Description: Addressed to students attending summer school at Columbia University and NYU, this folded circular produced by the New York Milk Committee asks students to pay attention to a novel New York attraction -- the successful reduction of summertime infant mortality. From July 1-29, 1911 ,the Committee's efforts were bolstered by educational outreach, the cleanliness of milkmen, nurses, applied hygene, and the activities of the "Little Mother's League." Statistical data and a range of photographs accompany an assesment of the goals and accomplishments of the Committee's infant mortality reduction program. Information pertaining to the location of educational seminars and the methodology employed when recording facts is also provided. Labeled "Efficient Citizenship No. 460" on the final page.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Mothers, Infants, Health, Summer, Poetry, Health, Hygiene, Hygiene, Girls
ID: mk1e007
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: The Best Specific Known [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Cooper's Rheumatic Remedy, "gives immediate relief."
Subjects (LC): Girls, Hats
Language: English
ID: WH251
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: The Little Favorites: Ayer's Pills Sugar Coated
Description: Trade card advertising Ayer's Pills and Ayer's Sarsaparilla featuring eight children holding up a sign that reads: "'The Little Favorites' Ayer's Pills. Sugar Coated." Most are casually dressed save for the child farthest in the background on the right-hand side who is wearing a peach-colored headwrap of some sort. In front of her is a boy holding a white cat. There is a girl wearing a flowered wreath in her hair towards the front of the group. The girl next to her is holding a red item in her left hand. Behind the group are grasses and leaves. The back has a poem and describes the curative properties for the Ayer's products advertised.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Bows, Cats, Children, Children's Hats, Clothing And Dress, Girls, Hair Ornaments, Hats, Leaves, Nature, Plants, Scarves, Water, Wreaths
ID: WH393
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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: 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

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