Pond's Extract

Item Overview

Title

Pond's Extract

Alternative title

American uniforms. War of revolution 1775-1783
What's on the other side?

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Date

1870/1906

Place of Origin

New York

Publisher

Pond's Extract Company

Language

English

Collection

Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

Notes

Description

A group of military personnel in a field standing around their leader saluting him and he is sitting on the back of a horse. Some other soldiers are riding on horses. The uniform relates to American Revolution 1775-1783.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

Pond's extract is invaluable for piles, burns, bruises, wounds, sprains, soreness, influenza, eruptions, chilblains, rheumatism, chapped hands, mosquito bites, cuts, boils, chafing, catarrh, sunburn, feminine disorders, lameness, hoarseness, sore throat, inflamed eyes, insect stings, inflammations and hemorrhages. Never harmful. Always beneficial. Fifty years the unequalled vegetable pain destroyer.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

10.2 x 10.2 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Hats
Pain--Treatment
Salutations
Pain--prevention & control--Advertisements.
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Military personnel
Patent medicines
Rifles
Horses