About this Collection
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.
Collection Overview
Date Created
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Extent
247 prints (trade cards)
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ARK
ark:/21198/zz0002gwzg
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https://catalog.library.ucla.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6099403
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Description
The trade cards are small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards touting a particular medicine and its many cures. The illustrations often have little to do with any of the ailments purported to be cured. They were pure advertising and very collectible.
Physical Description
Extent
247 prints (trade cards)
Keywords
Genre
Subject topic
Patent medicines
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
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