Genre: trade cards / Location: Canada and United States - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311, History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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.
Date:: [between 1870 and 1906?]