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Dr. Ingham's Nervine Pain Extractor, and Vegetable Liver Pills [inscribed]

Description:
Front of card depicts a boy wiping a broom with a cloth. A girl waits behind him next to a brick hearth holding a wooden bucket. Behind and to the left of the boy, a copper kettle and a silver pot hang near a pair of fireplace tongs resting against a wall. On the floor behind the girl lie a scrub brush and a bar of soap. Reverse side is text only.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Dr. Ingham's Nervine Pain Extractor, and Vegetable Liver Pills [inscribed]

Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer [inscribed]

Description:
Booklet-advertisement including directions for use, descriptions of the remedy's effectiveness, and a color illustration of a doctor leaving the 19th century premises of a family no longer in need of his services. The family is shown using the product and an African servant is opening the door for the departing doctor.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer [inscribed]

Minard's Liniment [inscribed]

Description:
One side of the card shows a black and white caricature of a crying baby holding a cat by its tail. The baby is sitting up, its eyes closed tightly in pain, dripping large tears, with its mouth wide open, bawling. The baby's left hand holds tha cat's tail, but we see only its tail and hind legs. Above the baby is printed, "The Prince of Wails," and underneath is, "Minard's Liniment, King of Pain." The other side of the card bears the text.
Date:
[between 1860 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Minard's Liniment [inscribed]

Carter's Little Nerve Pills [inscribed]

Description:
Picture on front of card depicts a young woman looking out of a window at a bird. There is no glass and her left hand is extended out the window and resting on a ledge. There are flowering plants on either side of the window on the ledge. It appears to be in the country side and there appears to be a city with skyscrapaers in the distance.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Carter's Little Nerve Pills [inscribed]

Merchant's Gargling Oil [inscribed]

Description:
The front of the card has a portrait of a brown horse's head, framed by a large horseshoe which reads, "Merchant's Gargling Oil. A Liniment for Man & Beast." The verso of the card consists of text advertising a shoe store, and includes a price list for eight kinds of "solid leather" shoes for men, women and children.
Date:
[between 1865 and 1893?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Merchant's Gargling Oil [inscribed]

Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer [inscribed]

Description:
Booklet-advertisement for pain killer medicine using naval ship and sea-faring theme. Describes the effectiveness and different uses of the product as a remedy for common ailments. Included are photographs of naval warships and also small illustrations of the different characters and/or circumstances of the various usages.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer [inscribed]

Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient[inscribed]

Description:
On back of card: ...In nine cases out of ten the source of headache is not in the brain but in the stomach. Indigestion is the most frequent cause. The digestive organs being disordered, they derange the action of the liver, the bowels, the kidneys, and the nerves, and the whole secretive and excretive machinery being as it were thrown out of gear, the brain suffers...This delightful preparation is the best remedy for chronic and periodical headache at present known, and absolutely invaluable as stomachic and gentle cathartic. It quickens the circulation, cools the fevered brow, brings back lustre to the eye; and it is in fact a luxurious draft in which a hundred healthful elements are blended.
Date:
[between 1870-1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient[inscribed]

My life was saved by Bovinine [inscribed]

Description:
Front of card depicts a young woman resting in an arm chair by a window wearing a red robe. There is a table next to the chair with a bottle of Bovinine and two glasses, one filled with Bovinine and one with water. When the card is held to the light her eyes appear to open and a bull appears in the window with the words: My life was saved by Bovinine.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
My life was saved by Bovinine [inscribed]

Mennen's Sure Corn Killer [inscribed]

Description:
One side of the card displays a colorful illustration of a man and a woman riding in a train or a trolly. The well-dressed man in top hat and coat is seated reading a paper, with his valise on the floor by his side. The woman, who is standing, carries a basket apparently full of vegetables from her marketing. She is looking sideways back at the seated man with a look of great annoyance on her face, and the heel of one of her boots is in top of the man's foot. He grins as if to say that he does not feel any pain. At the bottom of the picture is the line: Gent. I can support anything, I use Mennen's Sure Corn Killer. In the bottom right corner is a small inset with pictures of two feet, one labeled "before" and one labeled "after," to illustrate the effectiveness of the product.
Date:
[1884?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Mennen's Sure Corn Killer [inscribed]

Parker's Tonic [inscribed]

Description:
The card presents a picture of a beautiful lady whose posing for the picture , she is wearing a hat, wearing a very nice makeup, she is putting her left hand by her chin, the lady has a flower in her left hand, she is also wearing jewelery like a bracelet.The poster also says that the parker's tonic brings the bloom of health to the cheek and delight to the heart.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Parker's Tonic [inscribed]

Brown's Iron Bitters [inscribed]

Description:
Description: A brown haired woman wearing a pink floral dress is sitting in a barn holding a wooden pail next to a wooden wheel. She is looking left in this scene Above her is the title “Brown’s Iron Bitters. The Best Tonic” In the lower left hand corner is written information for the use of the this product. In the lower right hand corner there is the name “Mrs. Lanetry” followed by “The Jersey Lily”
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Brown's Iron Bitters [inscribed]

Dr. Petzold's German Bitters [inscribed]

Description:
Front of card depicts a picture of a personified leaf smoking a cigar and sitting down in a fine chair outdoors. Leaf has a profiled face of a smug man and is blowing smoke out of its mouth and gazing towards the left. Card suggests that taking the advertised tonic will lead to a good and successful life. The back of the card describes all the applications and uses of the tonic as well as the price and where to find it.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Dr. Petzold's German Bitters [inscribed]

Dr. Copp's White Mountain Anti-bilious Bitters [inscribed]

Description:
Front of card depicts a red-haired man with a beard and a straw hat fishing while sitting on a rock on the shore. He has an irritable expression on his face. A lobster is seated to his right, holding up the fishing rod. An open picnic basket with a red blanket sits to his left. On the other side of the basket, four sea birds scavange for food in the sand, while a dozen more birds fly in the distant sky. Reversde side is text only.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Dr. Copp's White Mountain Anti-bilious Bitters [inscribed]

Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic [inscribed]

Description:
Front of card depicts a girl emerging from a flower holding a bottle of the iron tonic in one hand and a spoon in the other. She is observing a snail taking flight from the plant, while another snail (without wings) sits on a leaf. It appears that the girl has just served the first snail with the tonic, causing it to sprout wings and take flight. The grounded snail awaits the chance to experience for itself the invigorating properties of the tonic. Reversde side is text only, which shows through the front.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1906?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic [inscribed]

Burdock Blood Bitters [inscribed]

Description:
Description: Two young boys sit in a wooden wagon while being pulled by a young girl. One boy with black curly hair is wearing a blue shirt and holding a closed red umbrella in his right hand. The other boy has blonde hair and wears a gray hat, while scratching his head with his right hand. The young girl has black hair and wears a red/yellow dress along with black shoes.
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Burdock Blood Bitters [inscribed]