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Patent Medicine Trade Cards Collection [descriptive]
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards Collection [descriptive] |
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Hungary [Geographic] United States [Geographic] Canada [Geographic] Belgium [Geographic] |
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Date |
[between 1870 and 1906?] [Publication] |
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1870/1906 [Normalized] |
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Description |
A collection of 247 patent medicine trade cards. Patent medicines were medical compounds sold under a variety of names and labels, though they were for the most part actually trademarked medicines, not patented. The trade cards are small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards touting a particular medicine and its many cures. The era of patent medicine began to unravel in the U.S. with the passage of the first Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. [Abstract] |
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247 prints (trade cards) [Extent] |
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Name |
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History and Special Collections for the Sciences [Repository] |
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Subject |
Patent medicines [Concept Topic] Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements [Concept Topic] |
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still image [Type Of Resource] |
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trade cards [Genre] |