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Trade card for "Barrett's Rock Candy & Hermitage Rye", Depot, 45 North Market Street, Boston, Mass., 1877

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-258773

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Description

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."

Details

Descriptive Terms

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

Physical Description

1 trade card ; 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.076.01.03.014

Image Dimensions

2 1/2 x 4 1/4 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Patent medicines
Tonics (Medical preparations)
Drugs
North Market Street (Boston, Mass.)
Sexual harassment
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Description Level

Item

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