Merchant's Gargling Oil, dream and fate, palmistry & c. songster, Merchant's Gargling Oil Co., Lockport, New York, 1888

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Collection Type

Ephemera

Date

1888

GUSN

GUSN-258972

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Medicines
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Medicines - General - Folder 4
Merchant's Gargling Oil, dream and fate, palmistry & c. songster, Merchant's Gargling Oil Co., Lockport, New York, 1888
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Medicines
    - General
      - Medicines - General - Folder 4
        Labels for drugs, Thomas Hollis, chemist and apothecary, 30 Union Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for August Flower for dyspepsia and liver complaint, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, for coughs, consumption & all lung diseases, I. Butts, location unknown, undated
        Dixie's land, The Piso Company, Warren, Pennsylvania, 1896
        Advertisement for Carter's Little Liver Pills, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Allen's Jewell Five Cent Plug, G.K. Mellor, corner Union & Pleasant Streets, Worcester, Mass., undated
        Scientific manual on the care of the skin and complexion, Geo. C. Frye, Portland, Maine, 1892
        Trade card for Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, 233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, 233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Sapanule, lotion, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Sapanule, lotion, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Hunnewell's Tolu Anodyne for sleeplessness and neuralgia, Gilman Brothers, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade cards for Hop Pills, sick headache, liver complaints, dyspepsia, Hop Pill Manufacturing Co., New London, Connecticut, undated
        Trade card for Ayer's Cathartic Pills, Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Ayer's Pills, Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, cures colds, coughs and all diseases of the throat and lungs, prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., undated
        Trade cards for Vegetine, the great blood purifier, H.R. Stevens, No. 464 Broadway, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment for man & beast, John Hodge, Merchant's Gargling Oil Company, Lockport, New York, undated
        Trade card for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Lynn, Mass., undated
        Trade card for The Best Tonic, extract of malt and hops, Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, undated
        Burnett's Floral Hand Book, Joseph Burnett & Co., Boston, Mass., 1878
        Palmer's manual of cage birds, Solon Palmer, perfumes, soaps, cosmetics, 376 Pearl Street, New York, New York, 1879
        Open secrets, Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ca. 1895
        Prize animals and their records, Perry Davis & Son, Providence, Rhode Island, 1890
        Trade card for Williams' New England Cough Remedy, Williams & Carleton, proprietors, Hartford, Connecticut, 1886
        Trade card for Athlophoros, rheumatism, The Athlophoros Co., New Haven, Connecticut, undated
        Trade card for C.K. Magee's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil, J.A. Magee & Co., location unknown, undated
        Merchant's Gargling Oil, dream and fate, palmistry & c. songster, Merchant's Gargling Oil Co., Lockport, New York, 1888 (current record)

Description

Merchant Company products are promoted in a brochure with song lyrics and dream interpretations. A calendar for 1888 is included. The back cover has an advertisement for J.W. Foss & Company, bargain givers in Dover, New Hampshire.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
people in health and medicine
brochures

Physical Description

1 brochure ; 6 1/2 x 4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.076.01.04.030

Image Dimensions

6 1/2 x 4 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Greg Smart, October 2000.

Places

Lockport (Niagara county, New York state)
Dover (Strafford county, New Hampshire)

Record Details

Material Type

brochures

Subjects

Patent medicines
Ointments
Pills
Drugs
Palmistry
Songsters

Description Level

Item

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