Red Cross Cough Drops [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Red Cross Cough Drops [inscribed]

Alternative title

Try me and I do you good

Date Created

[between 1870-1906?]

Place of Origin

United States

Language

English

Collection

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

Notes

Description

Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections of the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Reverse side of card shows a boy in a country lane carrying a basket and a flowering tree branch.

Caption

Additional card text: Recommended by physicians, and for sale by every druggist in the land. Beware of imitations. See that our trade mark, a red cross, is on every box.
Additional card text: Ask your druggist for the Red Cross Trademark Cough Drops 5c. per box. Over a million boxes sold the first season. Made from chemically pure Loaf Sugar. Containing nothing injurious. The best known remedy in the market for the cure of coughs, colds, sore throat, hoarseness, &c...

Physical Description

Extent

1 print (trade card)

Dimensions

11.3 x 8 cm.

Keywords

Genre

trade cards

Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Drug Compounding--Advertisements
Boys
Patent medicines
Drug Therapy--Advertisements

Location

United States

Resource type

still image