Items

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

Title: 23. Elegy on William Burke, who was executed at Edinburgh, Jan. 28, 1829.
Description: Illustrated ballad. Cut and mounted.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Prof. Fair's Hair Care [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Prof. Fair's hair tonic, a remedy for greying and thinning hair.
Subjects (LC): Girls, Milk, Pails
Manufacturer: Prof. Fair (Providence (R.I.))
Language: English
ID: WH264
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 a bouquet of orange, red, and white flowers with green leaves. The back lists the ailments the items can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Asthenia, Backache, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Leaves, Nature
Language: English
ID: WH191
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: 02. [Autograph letter signed by William Burke and dated January 27, 1829]
Description: Letter handwritten by William Burke while he was in jail awaiting execution.
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Gastrine
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Gastrine, a remedy for digestive ailments.
Subjects (LC): Birds, Vines
Manufacturer: Gastrine Manufacturing Co. (New York (N.Y.))
Language: English
ID: WH268
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Well, I declare that a single dose
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Eilert's Extract of Tar and Wild Cherry, a cough and cold remedy.
Subjects (LC): Interiors, Men
Manufacturer: Emmert Proprietary Co. (Chicago (Ill.))
Language: English
ID: WH262
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Hood's Sarsaparilla Laboratory
Description: Postcard with illustration of Hood's Sarsaparilla laboratory, located in Lowell, MA.
Subjects (LC): Laboratories
Manufacturer: C.I. Hood & Co. (Lowell (Mass.))
Language: English
ID: WH258
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Rosy Cheeks
Description: List of Alexander medicines for sale at Ben J. Rosenzweig, Druggist, 624 and 626 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y. and druggists generally. Drawing of a period scene in the countryside.
Subjects (LC): Conversation
Manufacturer: Alexander Medicine Co. (New York (N.Y.))
Language: English
ID: WH220
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: The Best Specific Known [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Cooper's Rheumatic Remedy, "gives immediate relief."
Subjects (LC): Girls, Hats
Language: English
ID: WH251
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies the Blood, Makes the Weak Strong, Creates an Appetite
Description: Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring a young girl resting her chin in her hands on a pink-colored ledge with Hood's Sarsaparilla written on it. She is wearing a blue dress with white frills at the cuffs and a white garment on her head. She has a gold ring on the ring-finger of her right hand and short, dark-brown bangs. The back is an advertisement for a concert and variety program.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Children, Children's Clothing, Portraits
Language: English
ID: WH142
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Always A Favorite [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Murray and Lanman's Florida Water.
Subjects (LC): Fountains, Parrots, Roses
Manufacturer: Lanman and Kemp, New York, NY, Murray and Lanman's Florida Water
Language: English
ID: WH313
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Dr. Browning's C. and C. Cordial for Coughs and Colds
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Dr. Browning's C. and C. Cordial, a syrup for coughs and colds.
Subjects (LC): Medical consultation, Physicians, Sick persons
Manufacturer: Dr. Champion Browning (Philadelphia (Pa.))
Language: English
ID: WH235
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: For the breath
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Furniss's Aromatic Cartridge, a breath freshener. Trimmed at top edge.
Subjects (LC): Arms and armament, Bayonets, Soldiers
Manufacturer: Thomas S. Furniss and Co. (Detroit (Mich.))
Language: English
ID: WH267
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Keller's Sure Cure
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Keller's Sure Cure, a panacea in tonic form.
Subjects (LC): Girls
Manufacturer: [Joseph Keller], [s.l.]
Language: English
ID: WH289
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: 13. Lines supposed to have been written by Mrs. Wilson, Daft Jamie's mother, on ascertaining the way and manner her son had been basely murdered in the West Port, by William Burke and William Hare
Description: Cut and mounted ballad. At bottom is note advertising the first edition of the chapbook "A laconic narrative of the life and death of James Wilson."
Language: English
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: Dr. T. S. McNeil's Pain Exterminator
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising three products by Dr. T.S. McNeil. Severe damage to verso.
Subjects (LC): Butterflies, Roses
Language: English
ID: WH299
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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