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Trade card for Ayer's Pills, manufactured by J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., undated

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-258710

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Description

This trade card contains harmful imagery including stereotypical caricatures of Native American people.

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Ayer's Pills are described on the card verso. In the illustration, a Native American woman offers the Pills to a reclining Native American man with a bow next to him while in the background, people work over a buffalo.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
people in health and medicine
pharmacists
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Description

1 trade card ; 3 1/4 x 5 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.076.01.02.016

Image Dimensions

3 1/4 x 5 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Ayer, J. C. (James Cook), 1819-1878 (Manufacturer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Patent medicines
Drugs
Native Americans

Description Level

Item

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