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Title: Burdock Blood Bitters: Louise Paullin
Description: Trade card advertising Burdock Blood Bitters featuring a portrait of a woman facing right. She is wearing a gown and long gloves. A sash on her chest reads: "Burdock Blood Bitters." She is holding a book. The back of the card has testimony of satisfied customers.
Conditions Cured (LC): Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Books And Reading, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Ethnic Costume, Flowers, Hats, Portraits, Women
ID: WH367
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Burdock Blood Bitters
Description: Trade card advertising Burdock Blood Bitters featuring a portrait of a woman in elegant dress with a red, feathered hat that is adorned with a large B pin of sorts on which is written Burdock Blood Bitters. She is wearing gold jewelry, including a choker with a B on it. Her dress is blue with lilies on it, and she has a small rose pinned to the front of her dress. The back lists the ailments Burdock Blood Bitters helps combat and testimony from Burdock Blood Bitters users.
Conditions Cured (LC): Headache, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Feathers, Flowers, Gold Jewelry, Portraits, Women's Hats
ID: WH128
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Expectant Mother
Description: Blank form for use by the Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality, a division of the New York Milk Committee, on which the personal and physical details of an expectant mother -- work situation, information about previous pregnancies, miscarriages, and infant feeding methods -- is recorded.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Maternal and infant welfare, Health, Childbirth, Breastfeeding, Bottle feeding, Bottle feeding
ID: mk1e025
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Brown's Iron Bitters the Best Tonic Cures Malaria, Dyspepsia & Female Infirmities
Description: Trade card advertising Brown's Iron Bitters featuring a framed portrait of a woman's head. The glass of the frame is broken, revealing the woman's nose and mouth. She has brown hair that is in an updo and is wearing a brown dress and gold, hooped earrings. The back describes the disease malaria and how the Iron Bitters can help cure it.
Conditions Cured (LC): Indigestion, Malaria
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bows, Earrings, Glass, Gold Jewelry, Hair Ornaments, Picture Frames And Framing, Portrait Frames, Portraits, Ribbons, Women
ID: WH238
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies the Blood: Be Sure to Get Hood's
Description: Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring a landscape and a portarit of a young woman. The landscape shows a forest with a river. The portrait is of a young woman with flower berrets in her hair with matching earrings. She is wearing a blue dress with a white-framed neckline and a dark-blue ribbon on her right shoulder. She has long, light-brown hair. These images are framed by light-red flowers. The back advertises vaudeville acts.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Earrings, Embankments, Flowers, Forests And Forestry, Hair Ornaments, Hairstyles, Portraits, Ribbons, Trees, Water, Women's Clothing
ID: WH145
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Woman's Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard with view of Woman's Hospital in Manhattan showing its entrance, fenced-in grounds, and trees along the street. | Caption at top left of back describes the hospital and its capacity. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Woman's Hospital, Women's hospitals, Maternal health services, Trees, Hospitals
ID: nycm_480
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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: 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: 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: The Morning Prayer [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. D. Jayne's Carminative Balsam, Dr.Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge, and Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills featuring an elderly woman with a male toddler on her lap and a young girl standing by her right side. There is a cat playing with a shoe by her left foot. She seems to be in a sewing room of sorts, teaching the two children how to position their hands in prayer. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Cholera, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Fever, Gastroenteritis, Helminths, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Babies, Cats, Children, Children—Prayers And Devotions, Children's Clothing, Domestic Space, Dress And Clothing, Dwellings, Families, Morning Prayer, Older People—Prayers And Devotion, Prayer, Scissors And Shears, Women's Hats
ID: WH162
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: Smith's Infirmary Hospital
Description: Color postcard with view of Smith's Infirmary Hospital on Staten Island. Turrets and awnings are seen; ivy covers a portion of the wall. The lawn and trees in front of the castle-like building are visible; in front of a low stone wall, three people sit in an open carriage with a white horse. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten address on back to Miss Christine Geisel of Springfield, Mass. [Geisel is the paternal aunt of Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss).]
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Richmond County, Smith's Infirmary Hospital, Horses, Carriages and carts, Horse-drawn vehicles, People, Men, Women, Lawns, Gates, Ivy, Stone walls
ID: nycsi_042
Geographic Subject: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Richmond Memorial Hospital
Description: Color postcard with front view of Richmond Memorial Hospital on Staten Island. Shrubs are seen on the fenced-in lawn, one large tree stands to the right. Two police officers stand in front of the brick building, next to a mailbox, and a woman stands at the front entrance. | Handwritten message on back reading "Billy Ana Harold."
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Richmond County, Richmond Memorial Hospital, Richmond University Medical Center, Mailboxes, Trees, Shrubs, Lawns, Streets, Police, People, Women
ID: nycsi_016
Geographic Subject: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Side View, Kings County Hospital
Description: Color postcard showing a side view of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. Hedges and trees line the side and front of the red brick building. A woman in a white dress is walking in front of the hospital. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten message on front: "From Emily, Helen & [Gotthiel?]."
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Kings County, Kings County Hospital (Kings County, N.Y.), Trees, Women, People, Hedges, Shrubs
ID: nycbk_062
Geographic Subject: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Dr. Morses
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a woman with a woven backpack filled with grapes, gold hooped earrings, a verdant dress, and a grape hook in her right hand. She is barefooted, and there is a snail by her left foot. She has a bunch of grapes in her left hand. Her sash reads: "BORDEAUX."
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Baskets, Costume, Dress And Clothing, Earrings, Ethnic Costume, Gold Jewelry, Grapes, Grasslands, Hats, Leaves, Nature, Scarves, Snails, Wine, Women's Hats
ID: WH176
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
Description: Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring a well-dressed couple walking in a park. There is a Cupid figure watching them from behind a pedestal with a vase of flowers on it about to shoot them with his bow. There is a dog by the couple's feet. The park is ornate and has a fountain and paved paths. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Backache, Bruises, Bunion, Burns And Scalds, Catarrh, Chilblains, Furuncle, Hemorrhoids, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sprains, Wounds And Injuries
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Costume, Dogs, Dress And Clothing, Eros (Greek Deity), Ethnic Costume, Flower Vases, Flowers, Folklore, Fountains, Garden Walks, Grasslands, Hats, Men's Clothing, Men's Hats, Men's Hats, Mythology, Nature, Parks, Pedestals, Trees, Water And Architecture, Women's Clothing
ID: WH197
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
Description: Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring a well-dressed couple walking in a park. There is a Cupid figure watching them from behind a pedestal with a vase of flowers on it about to shoot them with his bow. There is a dog by the couple's feet. The park is ornate and has a fountain and paved paths. 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, Animals, Costume, Dogs, Dress And Clothing, Eros (Greek Deity), Ethnic Costume, Flower Vases, Flowers, Folklore, Fountains, Garden Walks, Grasslands, Hats, Men's Clothing, Men's Hats, Men's Hats, Mythology, Nature, Parks, Pedestals, Trees, Water And Architecture, Women's Clothing
ID: WH344
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Army Laboratory, U.S.A. Debarkation Hospital No. 3
Description: Black-and-white postcard showing a laboratory at Debarkation Hospital No. 3 in Manhattan. Male and female staff work beneath a window while a uniformed man watches. Two uniformed men can be seen in the background. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Debarkation Hospital No. 3 (New York, N.Y.), Military hospitals, World War, 1914-1918, United States -- Army, Soldiers, Men, Women, People, Windows, Laboratories
ID: nycm_168
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Lying-In Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard with a slightly elevated view of the Lying-In Hospital in Manhattan. A rooftop solarium can be seen; part of Stuyvesant Square Park, with bare trees and snow on the ground, is visible as well. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Geo. McFee to Dr. C. T. Hurley of Boston, Mass., about his obstretrical work in New York.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New-York, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Women's hospitals, Trees, Streets, Sunspaces, Obstetricians
ID: nycm_263
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Columbia University 1907
Description: Black-and-white postcard with view of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Vanderbilt Clinic, Sloane Maternity Hospital, Main Building, and Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. A streetcar and pedestrians are visible at an intersection. The buildings are labeled at the bottom of the image in white lettering. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Vanderbilt Clinic (New York, N.Y.), Columbia University -- College of Physicians and Surgeons, Sloane Hospital for Women (New York, N.Y.), Roosevelt Hospital (New York, N.Y.), People, Pedestrians, Streets, Cable cars (Streetcars)
ID: nycm_059
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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