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Trade card for Hood's Sarsaparilla, C.I. Hood & Co., apothecaries, Lowell, Mass., undated

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-259341

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Description

The importance of blood purification is described on the card verso. "Hood's Cook Book, No.2" is free at any drug store in New England. The cherub figure in the image carries the product and blows a trumpet.

Details

Descriptive Terms

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

Physical Description

1 trade card ; 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.076.01.05.027

Image Dimensions

4 1/2 x 2 3/4 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Jackson Homestead.

Places

Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

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

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Patent medicines
Tonics (Medical preparations)
Sarsaparilla
Drugs

Description Level

Item

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