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Title: Pardee Medicine Co.
Manufacturer: Pardee Medicine Co. (Rochester (N.Y.))
Language: English
ID: WH316
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Physicians Who Know the Value of Dr. Seth Arnold's Balsam in Curing Bowel Complaints, Use It with Great Success
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Seth Arnold's Balsam featuring statements from customers on the back, and on the front an image of a man pouring medicine into a spoon for a woman sitting in a chair. The man is on the right and wears knee-length pants with stockings, a long coat, a powdered wig, and a tricorne hat. He carries a walking stick under his arm. The woman is wearing a shawl and a bonnet and has a blanket over her lap and a pillow behind her head. The background of the card includes flowers, leaves, and berries.
Conditions Cured (LC): Diarrhea
Subjects (LC): Berries, Flowers, Hats, Invalids, Leaves, Men, Shawls, Staffs (Sticks, Canes, Etc.), Women, Women's Hats
ID: WH109
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 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: The Best Tonic
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Best's Tonic.
Subjects (LC): Portraits
Manufacturer: Philip Best Brewing Co.
Language: English
ID: WH227
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Buy it, Try it, and be Happy! Morse's Dyspepsia Cure, Holliston, Mass.
Description: Trade card advertising Morse's Dyspepsia Cure featuring an image of a lighthouse and a sailing ship in choppy waters. Text at bottom reads "Eddy Stone Light House." The back lists ailments that Morse's Dyspepsia Cure helps.
Conditions Cured (LC): Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Headache, Heartburn, Indigestion, Palpitation
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Lighthouses, Sailboats, Sailing Ships, Water Waves
ID: WH177
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Thermaline
Description: Trimmed face of trade card advertising Thermaline; illustration of nosegay of roses, forget-me-nots, lilies of the valley etc.
Language: English
ID: WH363
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: John H. Sheehan & Co. Dealers in Drugs Medicines Perfumery and Toilet Articles
Description: Trade card featuring druggists John H. Sheehan & Co. featuring a bride-to-be being attended to by three people. The bride is seated in front of a vanity that is covered with flowers, possibly her bouquet. She is holding a book, as is one of the figures, the only male, who is directly behind her with his hat off. The back lists the company advertised and its address.
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Bows, Brides, Clothing And Dress, Domestic Dwellings, Ethnic Costume, Flowers, Hats, Veils, Wedding Costume, Women's Clothing
ID: WH212
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Use Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor, an analgesic. "Since 1840 it has never failed to give satisfaction."
Subjects (LC): Horse racing
Manufacturer: Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor
Language: English
ID: WH256
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for "feminine ailments."
Manufacturer: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (Lynn (Mass.))
Language: English
ID: WH325
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil
Description: Trade card printed on two side advertising Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil, a remedy for ailments ranging from toothache to deafness.
Subjects (LC): Dolls, Children, Children's furniture
Manufacturer: Foster, Milburn & Co. (Buffalo (N.Y.))
ID: WH364
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Pain Ceases Immediately [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Carter's Electric Nerve Pencil, a electromagnetic device for reducing pain.
Subjects (LC): Children, Meadows
Manufacturer: C.E. Carter (Lowell (Mass.))
Language: English
ID: WH243
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 has partially-obscured testimony from Burdock Blood Bitters users.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Headache, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Feathers, Flowers, Gold Jewelry, Portraits, Women's Hats
ID: WH240
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Cole's Carbolisalve
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising antiseptic soap and liniment.
Subjects (LC): Boats, Courtship, Lakes and ponds
Manufacturer: J.W. Cole and Co. (Black River Falls (Wis.))
Language: English
ID: WH249
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Brown's Globe Pills [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Brown's Globe Pills, an analgesic.
Subjects (LC): Barns, Villages
Language: English
ID: WH234
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: K.D.C. is a Positive Cure for Indigestion and Dyspepsia
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising K.D.C., a remedy for dyspepsia and indigestion.
Subjects (LC): Bridges, Cherry trees, Winter
Manufacturer: K.D.C. Co. Ltd. (Boston (Mass.))
Language: English
ID: WH288
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Petrolina, The Only Perfect Petroleum Jelly [from verso]
Manufacturer: Binghamton Oil Refining Co. (Binghamton (N.Y.))
Language: English
ID: WH320
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Ayer's Cathartic Pills, a safe, pleasant and reliable Family Medicine
Description: Trade card advertising Ayer's Cathartic Pills featuring seven cherubic, naked babies handling oversized pill boxes and such with the words Ayer's Pills on them. Some babies are wrapping the items, some are pasting labels onto them, and some are filling them with pills. The back has an image of a bottle with name of the manufacturer on it: J.C. Ayer and lists what ailments Ayer's Cathartic Pills cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Dizziness, Headache, Indigestion, Jaundice
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Babies
ID: WH121
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Wills's Cigarettes
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Wills's cigarettes.
Subjects (LC): Bottles, Flowers
Manufacturer: W.D. and H.O. Wills
Language: English
ID: WH381
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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