Medicine, Science & Technology
Women's Health, Patent Medicines, Advertising, Misogyny, Misinformation, Childbirth and Pregnancy
Buffalo, New York: Dr. J.H. Dye Medical Institute, 1899. A booklet advertising Dr. J.H. Dye's Mitchella Compound, a patent medicine that claims to cure diseases specific to women and promote painless childbirth. Marketed towards women, it begins with the ten-page "Story of Mrs. Dare", which is soaked in sentiment and.....
Price: $125.00
advertising, medicine, corn remover, foreign language, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Washington, DC: Criswell Chemical Company, [1916]. The "National Corn Remover" worked on corns, warts, and calluses, and was as "simple as court plaster" to use. The corn remover was essentially a treated plaster bandage that one applied to the corn after soaking it in warm water. Included is the remover.....
Price: $75.00
Medicinal Waters,Health and Wellness Tourism,Spring Water
Saratoga Springs, New York: The Saratoga Champion Spring, 1890s. Two (2) illustrated handbills promoting the natural mineral water from the Saratoga Champion Spring, marketing it as a natural treatment for afflictions ranging from constipation and dyspepsia to kidney disease and malaria. Appeals to health and wellness tourists, as well as.....
Price: $225.00
Medicine, Surgery
Booklet: 50 pp booklet with paper wraps. January 1855. Vol VIII. No. 1.The New Jersey Medical Reporter: A Monthly Journal of Medical and Surgical Science, edited by S. W. Butler, M.D. 9” x 5 ¾”. Frontispiece engraving N. Chapman.; Light cover wear; otherwise fine.
Price: $85.00
medicine, constipation, food & wine, cereal, all bran
Battle Creek, MI: Kellogg Company, 1932. A short booklet produced by the Kellogg Company in order to promote the use of their All Bran cereal as a means of helping with constipation. According to them, constipation "is so insidious. It gains a foothold before the person realizes what is wrong".....
Price: $95.00
Leather working, Tanners, Machinery
Boston, Massachusetts: Noble & Brooks, c1870s. Illustrated advertising bifolium for Noble & Brooks, "sole agents for the sale of A. Richardson's Patent Union Leather Splitting Machines, also Dealers in Leather, Tanners' & Curriers' Tools". Includes lithographed illustrations of the various tools and their names. Bifolium (10.5" by 8.25"), lithographed on.....
Price: $225.00
Breast Cancer,Self Examination,American Cancer Society
United States: American Cancer Society, 1952. An informational pamphlet for nurses, encouraging them to instruct female patients to perform self examinations to screen for breast cancer. Includes detailed directions for how to perform a self exam with diagrams. Emphasizes the importance of knowing local resources for women seeking medical help.....
Price: $225.00
Steam Power,Factories Manufactories and Machine Shops
Providence, Rhode Island: 1846. Printed circular announcing improvements to "ready made belts" for machinists and manufacturers, tauting new steam power technology: "These belts are made from the best Oak-tanned Philadelphia Slaughter Leather. In the dressing of them, steam power is employed, and an entirely new method adopted, by which the.....
Price: $175.00
Centennial Exposition of 1876,Philadlephia,American Manufacturing
Williamsport, Pennsylvania: E. Andrews, Saw Manufacturer, c.1876. Illustrated advertisement for E. Andrews, Saw Manufacturer, with an illustration of "The Old Anvil as it appeared at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876". The "Old Anvil" was "the first Saw Makers' Anvil brought to this Country. It has been used and.....
Price: $100.00
Women's History, Osteopathic, Osteopathic medicine, medicine, periodicals
Chicago, IL: American Osteopathic Assn, Jan-28. A volume of the journal of Osteopathic Health that focuses on women's health and how osteopathy can help. Osteopathy is a system of medical practice based on the theory that diseases are mostly due to loss of structural integrity of the body which can.....
Price: $65.00
Patent Medicines, Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, History of Photography in Ephemera
Providence, Rhode Island: Salisbury, Bro. & Co., c1866. Printed trade card with applied photographic image advertising Dr. Bicknell's Great Cholera Remedy, with an interesting inclusion: pasted to the recto is a (very Victorian, and slightly morbid) photographic reproduction of "Columbia's Grief", an artwork depicting the allegorical Columbia weeping over Abraham.....
Price: $175.00
patent medicine, advertise, advertisement, advertising, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic, rat, lab rat
Paris, France: Dec-53. An advertising postcard for a patent medicine called Penityrol. It was a synthetic antibiotics created to help combat diseases that are transmitted through the air or to help minimize the possibility of an infection after a surgery. What makes this advertisement extremely charming are the anthropomorphic lab.....
Price: $65.00
ferry, transportation, boston ferry, business, stock holder
Boston, MA: Peoples Ferry Company, 1853. A circular sent out to the stockholders of the Peoples Ferry Company on October 10, 1853. The company was a city subsidized ferry transportation for Boston Harbor, between East Boston and Boston. This circular was sent out to inform the stockholders of possible changes.....
Price: $225.00
Menu, Photography, Kodak Park Works
Kodak Paper Works. A 4 5/8" x 7" menu card printed on photographic paper with the exterior of the Kodak Park Works building on the left and a menu printed on the right for Luncheon on Monday, July Thirtieth, 1926. The reverse is blank. George Eastman shows first amateur color.....
Price: $175.00
Birth Control and Family Planning,Pregnancy,Birth Control Methods,Sex Education,The Pill
Chicago, Illinois: Searle, 1970. A booklet on family planning and birth control for women, offering general information about "the pill" and its advantages for the modern woman. Common side effects, dosage schedules, and different brand options are discussed. Advertises Enovid, Demulen, and Ovulen. From Searle, "Where 'The Pill' Began". Single.....
Price: $150.00
dream interpretation, horoscope, make up, cosmetics, advertising, astrology
Memphis, TN: Plough Chemical Company, 1927. An advertising booklet for Plough Chemical Company, a maker of cosmetics. 32 pp. Pictorial wraps. In addition to advertisements for their various products they also provide the horoscope for each astrological sign, as well as a method of interpreting one's dreams. They list a......
Price: $100.00
Medical Treatment,Family Medicine
Plymouth, Massachusetts: 1829. A handwritten medical bill in ink made out to "Widdow [sic] Hannah Blakeslee" from "R. Cook" for "medical services for self" from September 16th, 1825 until April 21st, 1829, totaling $14.42, and noting already received payment for medical services rendered to Gerry Blakeslee for $9.00. Located at.....
Price: $125.00
Public Health, Pneumonia
New York, New York: The Denver Chemical Mfg. Co., 1920. An illustrated booklet produced to educate medical practitioners about pneumonia and its effects on public health. Includes detailed scientific information about the physical science of the illness including symptoms, as well as treatment of the different kinds of pneumonia (Lobar.....
Price: $175.00
Pocket Map, New York city, Broadway Central Hotel
A three fold brochure that promotes the New York City on one side featuring views of the Battery, the New Washington Arch, a view of Broadway and of course the exterior of the hotel including information on the hotels location. The reverse is a New Map of New York City.....
Price: $75.00
Medicinal Waters,Health and Wellness Tourism,Spring Water,Sanatariums and Institutes
South Poland, Maine: Hiram Ricker & Sons, 1908. An illustrated history of Poland Spring brand water, beginning with its "Discovery in 1845 as a Remedial Agent" and continuing until 1907 when the Poland Spring company erected a new "permanent Spring and Bottling House". Note the occasional references to "the days.....
Price: $250.00
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
Paris, France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.75. Verso blank, appears complete in and.....
Price: $150.00
Hospital Financing, Medical Trends, Indigent Care
New York. NY: Presbyterian Hospital, 1908. 16 (unnumbered) pp. Printed on lightly polished paper. Images from photographs throughout of staff assisting patients, mostly the indigent. The narration begins with acknowledgment of the trend in hospital work toward scientific exactness, and the keeping of fuller records of all symptoms and treatment.....
Price: $100.00
Children's Health, Children's Hospitals
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1890. A valuable printed record of medicines prescribed by doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1890. Also contains diet suggestions for children aged 6 months to 2 years. The Prescribing Manual is divided by medicine type (e.g. "Liquores", "Misturae", "Linimenta") and includes.....
Price: $250.00
Dyes and Dyeing, Patent Medicine
Newport, New Hampshire: Carlton Hurd, c1870. Printed bifolium advertising goods sold by Carlton Hurd, druggist and "dealer in Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, and Druggists' Fancy Goods". Also advertises "Wine and Liquors, a choice stock for medicinal purposes only". Of particular interest are the "Recipes for.....
Price: $225.00