GUSN-258773
This trade card contains harmful imagery regarding sexual harassment.
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The trafe card text reads that Barrett's Rock Candy & Hermitage Rye is the "Standard remedy for all diseases of the throat & lungs."
advertising
business (commercial function)
people in health and medicine
trade cards (advertising)
1 trade card ; 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.076.01.03.014
2 1/2 x 4 1/4 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
trade cards (advertising)
Patent medicines
Tonics (Medical preparations)
Drugs
North Market Street (Boston, Mass.)
Sexual harassment
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