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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: Gessner's Unicorn
Description: The Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner's 4,500-page encyclopedia of animals, the Historia Animalium, makes even the prolific Gilderoy Lockhart look like a slouch. Part fantasy, part observation, Gessner's dense and exuberant animal kingdom included creatures real and imaginary, running the gamut from sea monsters and whales to diminutive tabby cats. Of the unicorn, Gessner writes that its horn marrow, cut with a little wine, could heal a man who'd eaten a poisoned cherry, and could cure a number of ailments. All the better to keep young wizards out of the Hogwarts hospital wing.
Collection: How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course

Title: Compliments of John S. Shaffer & Co., Druggists, Dealers in Dr. C. McLean's Liver Pills and Vermifuge
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills and Vermifuge featuring a bunch of pansies tied together with a red string. The back contains a customer testimony.
Conditions Cured (LC): Helminths
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Bows, Flowers, Pansies, Ribbons
ID: WH297
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: If you feel irritable take Cas-car-ria [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Cas-car-ria featuring a young girl with a dog running devil-esque creatures, presumably representing the ailments listed next to their bodies, into the water. The girl is wearing a bright pink dress and holds a switch in her hand. The dog is large and brown and white. The back quotes a piece by Henry Ward Beecher.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Rheumatism
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Children, Cliffs, Demonology, Devil, Dogs, Folklore, Grasslands, Mythology, Staffs (Sticks, Canes, Etc.), Trees, Water
ID: WH246
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Should Midsummer Urgency Be Met By Midsummer Appeal?
Description: Articles from the NY Times and the New York Press are reproduced on this 1911 postcard printed by the New York Milk Committee's Bureau of Municipal Research. "Asks $10,000 To Aid Babies," from the Times, highlights the efforts of Commissioner Lederle to increase city appropriations for the service of milk depots. "Why Milk Stations Are Worth While," from the NY Press, compares infant mortality statistics from 1911 to those of the previous year, noting the crucial role played by milk stations in the current year's reduction of deaths. A portrait of a healthy baby and a list of "Babies' Rights,"almost all of which deal with milk, are found on the postcard verso.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Health, Mortality, Law and legislation
ID: mk1e011
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: If you are Weak, Languid, Nervous or Suffer from Dyspepsia
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Iron Bitters for the treatment of digestive ailments.
Subjects (LC): Care giving, Couples
Language: English
ID: WH281
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Hunnewell's Universal Cough Remedy
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Hunnewell's Universal Cough Remedy — "will cure your cough."
Subjects (LC): Birdcages, Mothers and children
Manufacturer: Gilman Brothers (Boston (Mass.))
Language: English
ID: WH278
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: The Conclusion of the Matter [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising compound oxygen, to be inhaled as a treatment for disease and debility.
Subjects (LC): Corsets, Interiors, Women
Manufacturer: Drs. Starkey and Palen (Philadelphia (Pa.))
Language: English
ID: WH250
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Naughty Puss!: Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Dr. Jayne's Liniment, and Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young girl inspecting a scratch her cat, to her left, seemingly just gave her. She is wearing a blue, frilled dress. There is a ball on the floor by her right foot, and she is surrounded by ornate home decorations, such as a rug, tablecloth, and vase on a table filled with pink flowers. She has a blue bow in her hair, and the cat has a yellow ribbon around its neck. The back features the curative properties of the items advertised.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Croup, Helminths, Indigestion, Pleurisy, Throat—Diseases, Tuberculosis, Whooping Cough
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Balls—Sporting Goods, Bouquets, Bows, Carpets, Cats, Children, Children's Clothing, Domestic Space, Dress And Clothing, Dwellings, Flower Vases, Flowers, Infants—Wounds And Injuries, Ribbons, Rugs, Skin—Wounds And Injuries, Textile Fabrics
Language: English
ID: WH166
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Saving Through Education: Will You Reprint This?
Description: A double-sided postcard promoting healty diets for inants and children aged 18 months to three years, including sample breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus. The abilities of science and common sense to reduce infant mortality are also touted. On the back, photos depicting a plump, healthy baby and a guant, distressed baby are contrasted. "A Story" accompanies the images, as does the New York Milk Committee's address, where care givers can find more information to "make mother knowing."
Subjects (LC): Infants, Nutrition, Food, Menus, Poetry
ID: mk1e015
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: 27. An account of William Burke, who was executed at Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 28th day of January, 1829, for murder : with the confession he made while under sentence of death
Description: Tract printed on laid paper. Disbound and mounted. Illustrated title page. At head of title: Cheap tracts, no. 16.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Distillation Apparatus
Description: Serviceable copper cauldrons may be found for first years at Potage's in Diagon Alley, but for more advanced potions, students can consult the pages of Philipp Ulstadt's work on distillation for an apparatus upgrade. Ulstadt, a Swiss physician and professor whose very popular Coelum Philosophorum contained concise technical instructions for the processes of distillation, illustrated his manual with hand-colored woodcuts. Among Ulstadt's recipes are many for distillates of herbs and plants with wine, directions for making aqua vitae, and recipes for potable gold. Read closely, and you may find a formula for the molten gold Felix Felicis is near...we wish you lots of Liquid Luck.
Collection: How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course

Title: 26. Authentic confessions of William Burk, who was executed at Edinburgh, on 28th January 1829, for murder, emited before the sheriff-substitute of Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr Reid, Catholic priest, and others, in the jail, on 3d and 22d January
Description: Disbound pamphlet. Illustrated. Portrait of William Burke appears on the title page. An illustration of Daft Jamie appears on page 7.
Collection: The Resurrectionists

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: Dr. Roger's Syrup
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Dr. Roger's Syrup, a cough remedy.
Manufacturer: Manhattan Medicine Co. (New York (N.Y.))
Language: English
ID: WH338
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Hunt's Remedy [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Hunt's remedy, "the best kidney and liver medicine."
Subjects (LC): Children
Manufacturer: Hunt's Remedy Co. (Providence (R.I.))
Language: English
ID: WH279
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil: Mary Anderson
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil featuring a portrait of a young woman. She is formally dressed in a gown with long gloves. She is wearing a hat that reads: "Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil" and has a feather in it. The back lists the ailments the Oil has cured.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthma, Backache, Bronchitis, Burns And Scalds, Catarrh, Cough, Croup, Deafness, Diphtheria, Earache, Edema, Frostbite, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Throat—Diseases, Toothache
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Ethnic Costume, Hats, Portraits, Women
ID: WH366
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Sapanule: Sold By All Druggists
Description: Trade card advertising Sapanule featuring three figures and a dog. Towards the left is a boy courting a girl with a flower. In his right hand is a discus-type object. Between them is a dog holding a flower in its mouth. Towards the right is a boy lying down reading a book. He is wearing glasses and a small hat with a decoration on top. On the far right side of the card is a wreath of flowers and leaves. To its left is a thermometer. The back lists the ailments Sapanule can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Diphtheria, Inflammation, Neuralgia, Pneumonia, Rheumatism, Throat—Diseases
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Books And Reading, Children, Children's Clothing, Children's Hats, Costume, Dogs, Dress And Clothing, Eyeglasses, Flowers, Flying Discs (Game), Hats, Thermometers
ID: WH340
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: 19. Execution : a full and true account of the last speech and dying declaration of William Burke, who was executed at Edinburgh this morning, for murder, and his body given for dissection; also of his conduct and behaviour since his condemnation, and on the scaffold
Description: Illustrated broadside. Cut and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Ayer's Sarsaparilla
Description: Trade card advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla featuring an image of a man in a dressing gown holding a bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla and reading a paper advertising the medicine. A woman wearing a bonnet and a dress with lace cuffs and collar reads over his shoulder and clasps his arm. The back explains the product's health benefits and has an image of an animal intertwined with the word "MIND."
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Body Fluids, Catarrh, Eczema, Furuncle, Indigestion, Lymph Node, Rheumatism, Tuberculosis
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bottles, Clothing And Dress, Lace And Lacemaking, Men, Men's Clothing, Sarsaparilla, Women, Women's Clothing, Women's Hats
ID: WH111
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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