Health & Welfare
Graphic Design, Medication, Social and Cultural History
Japan: 1920s-1930s. This group of 14 vividly illustrated medicine packets designed for the Japanese market. Besides the printed product information,the imagery is often relevant to the ailment depicting coughing, holding an aching head or tooth or a demon taking hold of or seizing the body. The little packet with a......
Price: $350.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Firefighting,Safety,Inventories and Record Books
United States: 1903. A detailed inventory and record book spanning the dates 1903 and 1906, appearing to have belonged to a firefighter or building manager tasked with safety management. Largely recorded in ink manuscript, the book begins with an inventory of fire safety equipment (e.g. "Fire pails"; "Automatic fire doors";.....
Price: $175.00
Family Medicine, Self-Help, Marketing, Radio
United States: 1930s. A small gathering of advertising materials seemingly collected by one woman, "Mae Fenton", in the 1930s. A valuable snapshot of what kinds of marketing appealed to the average American white woman at this time. Most include references to a 1930s radio show, "The Voice of Experience", which.....
Price: $275.00
Pre-Code Hollywood,Early Sexploitation Made Sex Education
New York, New York: The American Social Hygiene Association, 1937. A set of educational ephemera published to accompany the 1933 Canadian-American film "Damaged Lives", directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film, considered by some to be an early form of sexploitation film, was spun by the studio's marketing team as.....
Price: $350.00
Children's Dental Health,Health Education
[New York]: N.p, 1951. Photo-illustrated poster produced for New York State Children's Dental Health Week in 1951, featuring a large photo of a little boy smiling and proudly holding his toothbrush up for the camera. The caption reads: "I Want To Make My Mark!!! with the sparkle of healthy and.....
Price: $150.00
Medicine,Patent Medicine,Panaceas
New York, New York: A.L. Scovill & Co., 1877. Lithographed bill of medicine filled out in ink manuscript, detailing the sale of medicines to a Mr. E.A. Brown. Lists over a dozen of Scovill's most popular medicines, ranging from "Dr. Baker's Pan Panacea" to "Prof. Dale's Persian Horse and Cattle.....
Price: $150.00
Health and wellness, herbalism, treatments and cures, constipation, Exoticism, Imperialism, Stereotypes
Washington, D.C. Alonzo O. Bliss Medical Co., 1930s. A printed 6.25" by 7.75" advertisement for the laxative Bliss Native Herbs, giving the reader directions for use, prices, and information about the medicine's ingredients, highlighting the "Native"/exotic marketing theme: "Some of the ingredients of Bliss Native Herbs are imported from various.....
Price: $100.00
Medicines, advertisements, health and wellness, women's health
New York: New York and London Drug Co., 1920s. Advertising flyer (10.25" by 7.25") for over twenty pills, syrups, creams and medicines sold under the brand Nyal's Family Remedies. The medicines claim to treat or cure a variety of afflictions including kidney and liver diseases, dyspepsia, constipation, dandruff, and even.....
Price: $150.00
Hair Loss and Hair Supplements
United States: 1930s and 1940s. A group of four (4) booklets advertising remedies or treatments for baldness and thinning hair in the 1930s and 1940s. Provides and interesting window into how companies advertised products to Americans, and how highly thick hair was (is) valued in Western society. The items include.....
Price: $175.00
antacid, advertisement, health & welfare, medicine
Toronto, Canada: Carter, Cummings, & Co., c1920. An advertisement for Al-Caroid, which was an antacid containing the vegetable digestive ferment caroid. One side of the ad has a color illustration depicting the antacid being mixed into a class of water, with the caption "flavor unusually pleasing, no sickly alkaline taste".....
Price: $125.00
Sex and Parenting Education,Motherhood,The American Family
Cooperstown, New York: The Arthur H. Crist Co., c.1910. A group of fourteen (14) parenting education booklets published for American parents by the Arthur H. Crist Co., publishers of "American Motherhood" magazine. Accordingly, the majority are addressed to mothers, and emphasize the importance of the mother as the center of.....
Price: $1,350.00
Cancer,Chemotherapy,Scientific and Medical Research
Kansas City, Missouri: Lynch & Company, c.1980. An early analysis of a new kind of chemotherapy, "Neo-Merphenol", promoted by Lynch & Company as "A comparatively new, safe, and efficient weapon" that may be used by physicians "to help them in their great humanitarian warfare against disease, suffering, and death" (p.....
Price: $110.00
Appendicitis,Public Health
Ottawa, Canada: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1950s. A brief, no-nonsense public health pamphlet devoted to appendicitis, educating the general public about what the affliction is and how to address it. Discourages the reader from seeking home remedies, and the importance of qualified medical care. Published by the Canadian branch.....
Price: $150.00
Clever Design,Marketing Medicine
Paris, France: Laboratories A. Bailly, c.1952. French advertising circular for "Arthrex Bailly" brand medication, featuring a cleverly designed illustration of an ill man in a leg cast, in the style of a neon sign. Claims to treat or cure gout, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, and rheumatism. Illustrated card (6" by 4.5").....
Price: $150.00
Early Fire Safety and Prevention
Tilton, New Hampshire: Automatic Fire Escape Company, c.1915. Advertising booklet for an "Automatic Fire Escape" marketed to American families and "all classes of owners of buildings" as a compact and "fool proof" method of escaping a fire from an upper level. Includes a lengthy description of the product, which functions.....
Price: $225.00
Patent Medicine Advertising
Rochester, New York: B.H. Bacon, c.1890. No, not that kind of bacon: printed flyer advertising a patent medicine sold by B.H. Bacon of Rochester, New York. Purports to be a "Certain Cure for Nervous Diseases, Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, and all Disease of the Stomach, Liver, and Kidneys". Directs.....
Price: $95.00
Tulips, Flowers in Advertising, Patent Medicine
Foxcraft, Maine: 1890s. Printed advertisement for "Balm of Tulips" cold sore remedy and patent medicine, promoted by H.A. Robinson, D.D.S., of Foxcraft, Maine. Appears to be used as an insert for a newspaper, or small handbill. Includes illustration of lips and large tulip. Measures approx. 4" by 4.5", verso blank.....
Price: $175.00
Advertising Products to Families,Family Medicine and Products
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Johnson & Johnson, 1910s. "Science Finds Comfort and Smiles for Baby": a booklet advertising Johnson & Johnson products for infants and the whole family, offering parents tips on infant care (sound sleep, use baby powder, bathing, etc.). Also lists uses for the baby powder for mother.....
Price: $175.00
Sexual Health and Education, Birth Control and Family Planning, Douching
[Chicago, Illinois]: Lanteen Medical Laboratories, Inc., 1934. Advertising booklet for Lanteen brand diaphragms, contraceptive jellies, and douches for protecting "multitudes of women whose health requires this safeguard" (p. 10). Begins with a fictional story of a young married woman seeking the advice of a fatherly and distinguished doctor, who debunks.....
Price: $125.00
Louis Pasteur,Vaccinations,Germ Theory
United States: Pasteur Vaccine Company, Ltd., c.1903. Advertising leaflet for a novel product for delivering vaccines without requiring expensive syringes or injectors, pioneered by the Pasteur Vaccine Company, Ltd., manufacturing chemists affiliated with Pasteur Laboratories in France (and by extension, Louis Pasteur). Note that the product is marketed to both.....
Price: $125.00
Health and Wellness
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1950s. A brief printed guide to healthy habits for adults, published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Includes amusing line drawings of cartoon characters eating healthy, exercising, and going to the doctor on the front. The advice inside include eating healthy, maintaining.....
Price: $100.00
Beauty and Body Image,Hollywood,Gender Roles and Expectations,Male Gaze,Joe Bonomo,Diet and Nutrition,Plastic Surgery,Body Dysmorphia and Image Disorders
New York, New York: The Bonomo Culture Institute, 1956. An illustrated guide for American women on how to improve and beautify your bust, with the promotion of celebrity trainer and bodybuilder Joe Bonomo. Bonomo (1901-1978) was a strongman and stunt performer who took Hollywood by storm and made a fortune.....
Price: $125.00
Public Health, Hygiene
[Worcester, Massachusetts?]: c1920. Small broadside (11" by 5.25", verso blank) promoting a lecture by a physician, Dr. Dart, "Upon the Subject of Dirt & Contagion, at the Baptist Church. He will show you what causes Diphtheria, Fevers, and all contagious diseases; that myriads of Organic Germs causing disease are contained.....
Price: $175.00
Botanicals, Business Cards, Mail-Order Medicine
[Delta, Ohio]: Samuel Bell Finney, c1900. Printed business card (2.25" by 3.75", verso blank) for Samuel Bell Finney (1833-1925), an Ohio doctor who "treats all diseased by correspondence" and has "over 25 years experience in botanic medicine". Finney provided diagnoses and medicine by post, which turned out to be an.....
Price: $150.00