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- Title
- This Brief Notice May Save Long Illness, Suffering, and Expense [from verso]
- Description
- Illustration of religious edifice near bridge; floral nosegay at border.
- Subjects (LC)
- Birds, Castles and palaces, Flowers, Snow, Winter
- Manufacturer
- E. Hartshorn & Sons, [s.l.]
- Language
- English
- ID
- WH274
- 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
- The Genuine Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills are a Sure Cure for Sick Headache
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills featuring a circular image of a small house in a wintry landscape. Spilling out of the circular frame are trees, some grasses, and a fence. Behind the circle is a cross-shaped pattern of blue and grey. The back has testimony from a satisfied customer.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Headache
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Housing, Nature, Snow, Trees, Wooden Fences
- ID
- WH298
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- If You would have a darling Ride, Try the Catville Toboggan Slide
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil featuring a cat on a toboggan. It has a red blanket over the bottom half of its body and is reaching for its kittens who seemingly fell off the ride. A crescent moon and stars are in the sky. The back lists the ailments the Oil can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Backache, Burns And Scalds, Cold (Disease), Cough, Deafness, Earache, Hoarseness, Throat—Diseases, Toothache
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Blankets, Cats, Moon, Nature, Sleds, Snow, Toboggans, Trees
- ID
- WH365
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Dr. White's Cough Drops Are the Best
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. White's Cough Drops featuring a yellow rose and berries on the left and a circular image of a snowy landscape on the right. Within the image are a small house, a fence, some rocks, and some snow-covered trees. The back lists the ailments the Cough Drops can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cold (Disease), Cough, Hoarseness
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Berries, Flowers, Housing, Leaves, Nature, Rocks, Snow, Trees, Wooden Fences
- ID
- WH380
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Old Doctor 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 wintry landscape. In the foreground is a rabbit standing on its hind legs. Behind it is crouching another rabbit under an overhang of grasses. A raccoon-like animal is stalking the upright rabbit from atop the mound of grasses. It is peering out at the rabbit from behind a snow-covered tree.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cats, Flowers, Grasses, Grasslands, Nature, Predatory Animals, Snow, Trees
- ID
- WH358
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Little Red-Riding-Hood [from verso]
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills featuring a young girl who is wearing a long, red cloak with a red bow at the top. She is facing the audience on the threshold of a door. Behind her is a snowy scene of pine trees, and to her right is a basket resting by her feet. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthma, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Headache, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Baskets, Bows, Children, Children's Clothing, Costume, Doorways, Dress And Clothing, Folklore, Forests And Forestry, Nature, Ribbons, Snow, Trees, Winter
- ID
- WH161
- 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
- Jamaica Hospital
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard with image of Jamaica Hospital's wooden building from across a Queens street. There is snow on the ground and a woman stands in front of the building; a horse and carriage are partially visible on the left-hand side. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Carrie to Mrs. Ada F. Smith of Freeport, Long Island, telling her she has arrived at home.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Queens County, Jamaica Hospital (Jamaica, New York, N.Y.), Porches, Snow, People, Pedestrians, Trees
- ID
- nycq_021
- Geographic Subject
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Title
- [Bronx Veteran's Hospital]
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard showing a side view of Bronx Veterans Hospital. Snow is visible on the ground while bare trees flank the hospital building. | Handwritten notation at bottom of front: "Bronx Veteran's Hospital"; the hospital is unnamed on the postcard. | Message handwritten vertically to the left of image: "Looks as big as life and twice as natural doesn't it?" | Postcard sent with two-cent George Washington stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Mary Ann to [Mrs. Cozie?] of Brooklyn, N.Y., discussing attending a concert at NYU on Thursday.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Bronx County, Veterans Administration Hospital (Bronx, New York, N.Y.), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Public hospitals, Veterans' hospitals, Trees, Snow, New York University, Concerts
- ID
- nycbx_115
- Geographic Subject
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)