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Title: Horsfords Acid Phosphate for Mental & Physical Exhaustion, Dyspepsia, &c.
Description: Trade card advertising Horsford's Acid Phosphate featuring a young girl looking desolately out into the distance. She is wearing a white garment and a white bonnet with a dark pink bow. She is resting her chin on her crossed forearms. Below her arms is text that reads "Our Pet." To the left is a compendium of flowers. The back lists the ailments Horsford's Acid Phospate cures.
Conditions Cured (LC): Fatigue, Headache, Hysteria, Indigestion, Tuberculosis
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Bows, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Portraits, Ribbons
ID: WH156
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Le Petit Berger
Description: Trade card featuring druggists John H. Sheehan & Co. featuring five figures and a dog in a country landscape. There are sheep in a fenced-in field behind them, and one of the figures is standing and playing a horn. He holds a staff and has a bag on his back. There is a path in the field and a body of water and a town in the background. The back lists the company advertised and its address.
Subjects (LC): Advertising, Animals, Baby Bonnets, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Dogs, Grasslands, Hats, Hats, Nature, Scarves, Sheep, Staffs (Sticks, Canes, Etc.), Trails, Trees, Water, Wooden Fences
ID: WH213
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Horsfords Acid Phosphate for Mental & Physical Exhaustion, Dyspepsia, &c.: It Makes a Delicious Drink with Water & Sugar Only
Description: Trade card advertising Horsford's Acid Phosphate featuring the face of a young girl in a red bonnet with medium-length, curly hair. She is wearing a lettered necklace whose beads read "Horsford's Acid Phosphate." The back lists the ailments Horsford's Acid Phospate cures.
Conditions Cured (LC): Fatigue, Headache, Hysteria, Indigestion, Tuberculosis
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Hats, Jewelry
ID: WH158
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Horsfords Acid Phosphate for Mental & Physical Exhaustion, Dyspepsia, &c.: It Makes a Delicious Drink with Water & Sugar Only
Description: Trade card advertising Horsford's Acid Phosphate featuring a young girl dancing in front of an elderly man who is seated on an armchair. He is playing an acordion. The back lists the ailments Horsford's Acid Phosphate can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Fatigue, Headache, Hysteria, Indigestion, Tuberculosis
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Children, Children's Clothing, Costume, Dance, Dress And Clothing, Families, Hats, Musical Instruments, Old Age, Shoes
ID: WH157
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Horsfords Acid Phosphate for Mental & Physical Exhaustion, Dyspepsia, &c.
Description: Trade card advertising Horsford's Acid Phosphate featuring a young girl looking desolately out into the distance. She is wearing a white garment and a white bonnet with a dark pink bow. She is resting her chin on her crossed forearms. Below her arms is text that reads "Our Pet." To the left is a compendium of flowers. The back lists the ailments Horsford's Acid Phospate cures.
Conditions Cured (LC): Fatigue, Headache, Hysteria, Indigestion, Tuberculosis
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Bows, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Flowers, Portraits, Ribbons
ID: WH155
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Take Hood's Sarsaparilla to Purify Your Blood: 100 Doses $1.00
Description: Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring five children at a show of some sort with a spotlight that shows the words "Take Hood's Sarsaparilla to Purify Your Blood 100 Doses $1.00." There is a girl in a blue dress with a white bonnet watching the spotlight while a boy climbs up the back of her chair. To her left is a boy in a dark blue shirt looking to the right. To her right is a girl in a red dress looking to the lower, left-hand corner. Finally, there is a toddler looking straight at the customer wearing a blue-and-red outfit eating a candy-cane and holding a treat. The back advertises a concert performance.
Conditions Cured (LC): Catarrh, Headache, Indigestion, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Scrofula
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Candy Canes, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Snack Foods
ID: WH150
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Morses Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root the Great Blood Purifier
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a young boy filling up a pail of water on his lap. He is wearing casual clothing and a hat. Water is splashing out of the pail, and he seems to be holding a stick or ladle that is resting within the pail with his left hand.
Conditions Cured (LC): Body Fluids
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Hats, Pails
ID: WH174
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Morses Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root the Great Blood Purifier
Description: Trade card advertising Dr. Morse's Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root featuring a young boy riding a toy horse's saddle. He is wearing traditional horse-riding garb with a riding crop in his right hand.
Conditions Cured (LC): Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Malaria
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Hats, Horses, Toys
ID: WH175
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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