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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 Hospital for Special Surgery and The Philip D. Wilson Research Foundation [from back]
Description: Black-and-white postcard showing the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. A view of trees, the East River, East River Drive, pedestrians, and cars parked alongside the building can be seen. | Caption at top left of back describes the hospital. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Hospital for Special Surgery, Philip D. Wilson Research Foundation, East River Drive (New York, N.Y.), East River (N.Y.), People, Pedestrians, Medicine -- Research, Trees, Clouds
ID: nycm_461
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.)

Title: New York Hospital and Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research [from back]
Description: Black-and-white postcard with view of Manhattan's New York Hospital medical complex and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from Long Island City, Queens. In the foreground is a log barge in the East River; neighborhood buildings are also visible around the two institutions. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, New York Hospital, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, East River (N.Y.), Barges, Lumber
ID: nycm_301
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Aerial View of New York Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard with an aerial view of New York Hospital in Manhattan, the East River, and surrounding buildings. Printed at bottom of front (surrounding postcard title): "No. 229. Arnold and Kellogg." | Postcard sent with one-cent George Washington stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Esther to Miss Addie Brown of Washington, D.C., saying she had a blood test at the hospital last Tuesday and will be home Saturday night.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, New York Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, East River (N.Y.), Blood -- Analysis
ID: nycm_333
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: River Crest, A Sanitarium for Mental and Nervous Disease
Description: Color postcard with view of several buildings at River Crest Sanitarium in Queens from a driveway. An outdoor pavilion, water tower, trees, a fence, plus three large buildings can all be seen. Full offerings of the sanitarium and the names and titles of the president and physician in charge are in an inset box at top surrounded by scrollwork. | Postcard sent with one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. | Handwritten address on back to Dr. H. B. West of South Norwalk, Conn.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Queens County, River Crest Sanitarium (Staten Island, N.Y.), Sanatoriums, Rehabilitation centers, Substance abuse treatment facilities, Mental health facilities, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Trees, Water towers, Driveways, Pavilions, Kindred, J. Joseph, Dold, William Elliott
ID: nycq_038
Geographic Subject: Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Metropolitan Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard showing a slightly elevated view of Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan with surrounding streets, parking lots, and parked cars visible. In the far right background, a portion of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triborough Bridge) over the East River can be seen. | Postcard sent with four-cent Abraham Lincoln stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Phyllis to her aunt Miss Eliza C. Gray in Johnstown, N.Y. She says she has only two months left as a student at the hospital, after having been there four years.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Metropolitan Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.), Automobiles, Parking lots, Streets, Triborough Bridge (New York, N.Y.), Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (New York, N.Y.), East River (N.Y.)
ID: nycm_279
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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