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- 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
- Uncomfortable, Depressing, Sleep Robbing Demon Dyspepsia [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides, advertising Burdock Blood Bitters, a remedy for digestive ailments.
- Subjects (LC)
- Actresses, Hats
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH130
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- A Simple Catechism [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card printed on two sides advertising Slaven's Effervescent Fruit Salt, a remedy for digestive ailments.
- Subjects (LC)
- Dolls, Monocles, Top hats
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH353
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Brown's Iron Bitters
- Description
- Trade card advertising Brown's Iron Bitters featuring a woman peering out from behind a column with text that reads: "Brown's Iron Bitters." She is wearing a blue and white dress and a pink bonnet. Behind her is a tall, flowering bush. On the top left corner is an overlaid trade mark.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Flowers, Hats, Nature, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH236
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- 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
- Vegetine: The Great Blood Purifier
- Description
- Trade card advertising Vegetine featuring two young children and a basket of animals. Within the basket are a lobster, who is pinching the left-most child's clothing, and a duck or goose. The right-most child is liftng the top off of the basket that contains the animals. The back has testimony from a satisfied customer.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Baskets, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Ducks, Hats, Lobsters
- ID
- WH371
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- This is all right, Hood's Sarsaparilla Can't Fool me twice
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring an elderly man outside a pharmacy looking at a box of Hood's Sarsaparilla. He is wearing a yellow jacket and holding a red umbrella under his left arm. Behind him are buildings and a fountain. The back is an advertisement for a concert as well as a description of the ailments Hood's Sarsaparilla can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Headache, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Clothing And Dress, Drugstores, Fountains, Hats, Men, Men's Hats, Owls, Portraits, Umbrellas, Water
- ID
- WH388
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love ...
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl leaning on a sign and a young boy who is seemingly courting her with a bunch of grapes. He is holding a blue box or book and is wearing an ornate hat with a long feather in it. She is wearing a flowing dress. Behind them is a tree with foliage. The back lists the ailments the advertised medicines cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Children, Children's Hats, Costume, Feathers, Gifts, Hats, Leaves, Trees
- ID
- WH286
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Enfoncé! Plus de malades à soigner depuis que tout le monde prend 20 gouttes de véritable Fer Bravais avant chaque repas
- Description
- Trade card advertising Fer Bravais featuring a young girl wearing a pointed hat and apron with her arms outstretched, surrounded by a blue fleur de lis border. The back lists the ailments Fer Bravais can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Chlorosis, Fatigue, Influenza, Typhoid Fever
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Hats, Portraits, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH200
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- This is all right, Hood's Sarsaparilla Can't Fool me twice
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring an elderly man outside a pharmacy looking at a box of Hood's Sarsaparilla. He is wearing a yellow jacket and holding a red umbrella under his left arm. Behind him are buildings and a fountain. The back is an advertisement for a concert as well as a description of the ailments Hood's Sarsaparilla can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Headache, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Clothing And Dress, Drugstores, Fountains, Hats, Men, Men's Hats, Owls, Portraits, Umbrellas, Water
- ID
- WH389
- 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
- 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
- Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
- Description
- Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring two couples crossing paths in a park. Both couples are formally dress and wearing hats, which the men of each couple are tipping to each other. Between them is a bench. In the distance is a carousel. In the farthest distance are mountains. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Backache, Bruises, Bunion, Burns And Scalds, Catarrh, Chilblains, Fatigue, Furuncle, Hemorrhoids, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sprains, Wounds And Injuries
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Benches, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Ethnic Costume, Garden Walks, Grasslands, Hats, Men's Hats, Merry-Go-Round, Parks, Trees, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH342
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Vaseline Chesebrough Manfg Co.
- Description
- Trade card primarily advertising Pure Vaseline featuring a beach scene with two children playing in the foreground. They are both wearing yellow hats and playing in the sand with shovels and a single pail. Behind them stands a woman with a parasol. She is in formal dress, with an overcoat, ruffled skirt, and yellow bow on her hip. There are various people on the beach and in the ocean as well is what looks like a cruise ship in the far background. The back contains a poem titled The Elixir Vitae and lists prices for various vaseline products.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Burns And Scalds, Cold (Disease), Croup, Neuralgia, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Beaches, Boats And Boating, Bows, Children, Children's Hats, Clothing And Dress, Crabs, Hats, Parasols, Ribbons, Sand Pails, Sand Toys, Shovels, Water, Water Waves, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH369
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
- Description
- Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring two couples crossing paths in a park. Both couples are formally dress and wearing hats, which the men of each couple are tipping to each other. Between them is a bench. In the distance is a carousel. In the farthest distance are mountains. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Backache, Bruises, Bunion, Burns And Scalds, Catarrh, Chilblains, Fatigue, Furuncle, Hemorrhoids, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sprains, Wounds And Injuries
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Benches, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Ethnic Costume, Garden Walks, Grasslands, Hats, Men's Hats, Merry-Go-Round, Parks, Trees, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH343
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- The Toll Gate
- Description
- Trade card advertising a book titled "The Sexual System and its Derangements" featuring an image of a donkey in a barn. A man's head peeks out from a window overlooking the donkey from within the barn. There is a fence between the viewer and the donkey that seems to read "Buffalo NY." There are various hidden images in the leafless trees that surround the barn. The back praises the book being advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Depression, Dizziness, Fatigue
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Donkeys, Hats, Trails, Trees, Wooden Fences
- ID
- WH254
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Catarrh, Neuralgia & Headache No More! Cushman's Menthol Inhaler Cures Diseases of the Head Including Hay-Fever, Colds & Bronchitis
- Description
- Trade card advertising Cushman's Menthol Inhaler featuring a young woman smoking. She is wearing a feathered hat with long-sleeved shirt or dress with ruffled sleeves, a bodice, and a wrapped garment around her bosom and neck. The back explains what the inhaler is, its price, and has an illustration of a woman looking over her back, right shoulder at the buyer while she smokes. The card is tinted brown.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Bronchitis, Catarrh, Cold (Disease), Hay Fever, Headache, Neuralgia
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Inhalers, Portraits, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
- ID
- WH136
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards