Health Food Company [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Health Food Company [inscribed]

Alternative title

Wheatena

Date Created

[between 1870 and 1906?]

Place of Origin

Boston (Mass.)

Publisher

Health Food Company

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

The back of the card has a picture of a girl wearing a hat and a coat.
Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.

Caption

The card consists of 2 pages, the text on the front page says: Health Food Company. Head office, New York. Prepares foods for all diseases, and treats the cereals by improved methods, by which all useless waste is discarded and all valuable nutriment conserved in assimilative condition. Wheatena is the best breakfast cereal. It cooks more quickly, digests more perfectly, has a more pleasing flavor and imparts more strength of body and brain than any other cereal food in the world...it includes the address of the company.

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Girls
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Cereals--Advertisements
Cereals as food
Patent medicines
Health Food--Advertisements

Location

United States

Resource type

still image