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Title: Invalid Ladies This Is For You [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Burdock Blood Bitters as a remedy for diseases of womanhood.
Subjects (LC): Boats, Bridges, Rivers
Manufacturer: Foster, Milburn & Co. (Buffalo (N.Y.))
Language: English
ID: WH239
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 and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring an image of the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River with many boats sailing below it. One can see the shores of both Brooklyn and Manhattan. The back lists the benefits of the Vegetable Compound and the Liver Pills.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Backache, Depression, Mental, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Bridges, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.), East River (N.Y.), New York (N.Y.), Rivers, Sailboats, Sailing Ships, Waterfronts
ID: WH183
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center [from back]
Description: Color postcard showing an aerial view of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan, the George Washington Bridge, the Hudson River, and part of Riverside Park. | Caption on the top left of the back lists the individual buildings. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.), George Washington Bridge (New York, N.Y.), Riverside Park (New York, N.Y.), Rivers, Bridges
ID: nycm_062
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: The Lloyd I. Seaman, Floating Hospital of St. John's Guild [from back]
Description: Black-and-white postcard with an image of the hospital ship Lloyd I. Seaman, The Floating Hospital of St. John's Guild, and its patients, presumably on the East River. There is a view of buildings in the background. | Caption at top left of back describes the ship and its mission. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Floating Hospital (Long Island City, New York, N.Y.), St. John’s Guild (New York, N.Y.), Mothers, Children, East River (N.Y.), Rivers, Hospital ships, Lloyd I. Seaman (Barge), Hospitals, Convalescent, Children -- Hospitals, Pediatrics
ID: nycm_237
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: New Bellevue Hospital
Description: Color postcard with aerial view of the Bellevue Hospital complex in Manhattan. There is a view of the East River with two boats in the water; three tree-edged lawns face the river; trees line the paths around the red brick buildings. | Postcard sent with one-cent George Washington stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Dr. Joseph Brimbery to Dr. W. Z. Roberts in Buffalo, N.Y., saying he is working at the Vanderbilt Clinic and was previously in the army for two years.
Subjects (LC): Military hospitals, Vanderbilt Clinic (New York, N.Y.), Rivers, Boats and boating, Ships, World War, 1914-1918, Dermatology, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Bellevue Hospital, East River (N.Y.)
ID: nycm_031
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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