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Title: Ambulance Quarters and Power House, New Harlem Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard with view of Harlem Hospital's ambulance quarters and power house in Manhattan. A metal fence encloses a yard in front of the buildings; a large industrial chimney is seen on top of the power house. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten message on back from C. M. F. to her sister Mrs. Wm. H. Fleming of Glen Moore, Pa., about how lively the city is today for the election. She also writes about her training at Harlem Hospital and Bellevue Hospital.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Harlem Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Harlem Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.), Power-plants, Fences, Lawns, Chimneys, Ambulances, Elections -- New York (State) -- 20th century
ID: nycm_250
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Ayer's Hair Vigor for the Toilet: Restores Gray Hair to its Natural Vitality and Color
Description: Trade card advertising Ayer's Hair Vigor featuring five mermaids, four of whom arein the forefront in various stages of using Ayer's Hair Vigor. The fifth is swimming off to a ship that seems to be capsizing in the background. The back has an image of an Ayer's Hair Vigor bottle and two brushes. It also lists the ailments Ayer's Hair Vigor helps combat.
Conditions Cured (LC): Baldness, Dandruff
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Bottles, Flowers, Hair, Hair—Care And Hygiene, Hairbrushes, Mermaids, Ocean, Ocean—Folklore, Ocean—Mythology, Plant-Water Relationships, Sailboats, Sailing Ships, Women
ID: WH125
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Brown's Iron Bitters the Best Tonic
Description: Trade card advertising Brown's Iron Bitters featuring a woman, described as Mrs Langtry, The Jersey Lily, sitting by a wooden wheel holding a wooden bucket. She is surrounded by a bed of hay. She is wearing a pink, flowered dress with a white apron. She stares to the left. The back details how the Iron Bitters works to cure ailments.
Conditions Cured (LC): Depression, Fever, Indigestion, Malaria, Neuralgia
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Hay, Nature, Pails, Plants, Portraits, Trees, Women
ID: WH237
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Seasonable Suggestions [from verso]
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 nymph-like woman standing on a large leaf sipping something out of a flower blossom. She is wearing a white, flowing dress and has long, curly hair with leaves in it. She is framed by foliage and flowers. 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, Flowers, Hair Ornaments, Leaves, Nature, Plants, Portraits, Women
ID: WH285
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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