Medicine, Science & Technology
wanted poster
A poster with three different images from photographs of the individual, who is a professional nurse who claims to be a physician. Among his aliases “Nativity Hollander” Includes a comprehensive description including an active quick and nervous disposition, slightly bow legged. It also lists his relative with addresses. Issued by.....
Price: $75.00
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
medical, historical memorabilia
An 18 pp pamphlet with paper wraps. An address to the Gentleman of the Graduating Class, November 4, 1869. In 1858 California surgeon Elias Samuel Cooper organized the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific with a board of trustees consisting of ten clergymen and three physicians. The first.....
Price: $175.00
Steamers and Liners,Menus,Maritime and Shipping History
[Quebec]: Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, 1898. A printed menu for breakfast on the steamer S.S. Carolina in 1898, with designs of destinations and natural sights on the front by A.G. Racey (e.g. Montreal, Cliffs of Murray Bay). Inside, there is a wine list on the right and a menu.....
Price: $125.00
WWI,American Nurses Abroad,Le Bien-Être du Blessé,Franco-American Volunteer Nurse Organizations
France: 1919. A group of four (4) letters from the Franco-American organization Le Bien-Être du Blessé addressed to Ann Cléophas Mullarkey, an American nurse who served in France during the war and assisted the organization in the war's immediate aftermath. From the letters we glean that Mullarkey was awarded a......
Price: $175.00
1930s Birth Control,Marketing to Women,Sex Education
Chicago, Illinois: Lanteen Laboratories, Inc., 1934-1942. Seven (7) printed booklets advertising birth control products by Lanteen. Educates women about different birth control methods by describing which methods are safe and reliable and how they work. Unsurprisingly, it argues that the spermicidal jelly and cap diaphragm method by Lanteen is the.....
Price: $500.00
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
Incubator Babies,Sideshow Attractions
San Francisco, California: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Original printed souvenir day pass ticket to the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, held on San Francisco's Treasure Island between February 1939 and September 1940. This example is notable for its promotion of the "Incubator Babies" sideshow. The attraction was exactly what.....
Price: $75.00
Military Service,Recruitment,Women in the Military
N.pl: U.S. Army and Air Force Medical Services, 1950. An expansive information packet for recruitment officers, published by the U.S. Army and Air Force Medical Services. Offers information on the following corps: Medical Corps; Medical Service Corps; Dental Corps; Veterinary Corps; Nurse Corps; and Women's Medical Specialist Corps. The packet.....
Price: $300.00
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
Advertising Contraceptives and Family Planning Products,1960s Sexual Revolution
Chicago, Illinois: Federal Pharmacal Supply, Inc., 1965. A brightly illustrated advertising leaflet for products by Federal Pharmacal Supply, Inc., with a focus on contraceptives. Includes several brands of prophylactics/condoms and a brand of numbing lubricant for men. Note the "Federal Fun Specials" on the back, which include novelty gifts such.....
Price: $325.00
Women's Colleges
Northampton, Massachusetts: Smith College, 1965. A metal bicycle license plate for a student or faculty member at Smith College in the 1960s. Embossed with the college name, identification number "1106", and expiration date ("Exp. 65"). Measures approx. 3" in diameter with two pinholes on left and right edges for fastening.....
Price: $150.00
medicine, patent medicine, advertising, illustration art, Leonetto Cappiell
Paris: Le Thermogene, c1900. A collection of three items (in French) advertising 'Le Thermogene' a patent medicine product that was meant to help with a variety of ailments such as coughing, bronchitis, flue, sore throat, colds, joint pains, and rheumatism. The product was a heating pad that was composed of.....
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
London,Railway Tourism,Travel in Victorian Britain
London, England: Wm. Tweedie, 1862. A railway guide, but made into an ABC, published in the 1860s for tourists and locals alike to properly plan their train journeys. Published in November 1862 at the height of Victoria's reign around the same time of the International Exhibition of 1862, which brought.....
Price: $500.00
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
Mobile Homes, Do-It-Yourself
Saginaw, Michigan: Mershon & Morley, 1900. Printed bifolium advertisement (8.5" by 5.5") for "Portable Houses" produced by Mershon & Morley of Saginaw, Michigan. First leaf features a printed testimonial letter from a happy customer, promoting the ease of the structure's assembly; the second leaf features an illustration of the fully.....
Price: $115.00
General Motors, Vehicles
Oakland, California: Walker Parccar Co., 1930s. Illustrated advertising pamphlet for the Walker Parccar Parking System, a clever mechanism that, when attached to the undercarriage of a vehicle, allows the driver to swing it into even the tightest of parking spaces. Includes photos of the product in use, as well as.....
Price: $175.00
Patent medicines, Quack medicines
New York: M.J. Breitenbach Co., c.1900. Advertising booklet for an iron- and manganese-based patent medicine, Gude's Pepto-Mangan, beginning with sweeping statements about the history of medicine: "Ever since the art of medicine emerged from its chrysalis stage of mysticism, mummery and moonshine, iron in some form has been administered .......
Price: $125.00
Animals in Marketing, Patent Medicine, Guaranteed Cures and Panaceas
Springfield, Missouri: [Frank W. Diemer, M.D], 1880s? Illustrated advertising card for "Dr. Diemer's Prescription for the Cure of Men and Women", with a cockfighting motif on the front. Pricing on verso along with claims of the product being a "guaranteed cure" for all diseases. Chromolithographed card measures 2.5" by 3.75".....
Price: $150.00
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
Glyco-Thymoline, quack medicine, remedy
A single-fold 6 ¼” x 3” flyer for Glyco-Thymoline, an alkaline antiseptic for the efficient treatment of inflammatory conditions of mucous membrane in all parts of the body, by Kress & Wren Company. 316-363 Pearl Street, New York. The front cover is an image from a photograph of an Edwardian.....
Price: $85.00
advertising, medicine, pharmacist, music, song card
Bridgeport, OH: H. E. Wells & Co., [1885]. An advertising card for H. E. Wells & Co., a family druggist from Bridgeport, OH. Based on the brief description on the card, it appears as though Wells sold remedies for both humans and farm animals, like horses and cattle. On the.....
Price: $100.00
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