Women’s Health
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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
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
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
Kotex,Puberty,Teen Girl,Menstrual Health,Women's Health,Advertising to Women,Hygiene
Chicago, Illinois: Kotex, c.1942. A scarce set of advertising ephemera charting a marketing campaign by Kotex targeting teen girls on the cusp of womanhood. Includes a guide to puberty and menstruation titled "As One Girl to Another", as well as ten (10) printed leaflets promoting Kotex and the booklet. Provides.....
Price: $600.00
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
Patent Medicine,Women's Health,Family Medicines,Mail Order Medicine
Omaha, Nebraska: Dr. B.J. Kay Medical Co, c.1899. A scarce grouping of ephemera advertising patent medicines by the Dr. B.J. Kay Medical Company, including cure-alls for everything from catarrh to common "diseases of women". Patent medicines, often secured by mail order, were common until dubious cure were banned by the.....
Price: $500.00
Gynecology and Obstetrics,Family Medicine and Pediatrics,Surgery,Women's Health and Diseases
c.1900. Lithographed business card of Arthur O. McKinley, M.D., a doctor specializing in "Surgery and Diseases of Women and Children". Interesting to see how pediatrics and gynecology were related here. Includes the following information about the doctor's qualifications: "M.D. in '94, Post Graduate at Hopkins in '95 & '96; Four.....
Price: $100.00
Birth Control,Maternal Mortality Rates,Abortion,Women's Right to Choose,Margaret Sanger,Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
[New York, New York]: [Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau], 1938. A series of three (3) pamphlets published by Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau for medical professionals and scholars studying birth control and women's health in the United States in the late 1930s. The first pamphlet begins by highlighting.....
Price: $550.00
Contraception and Family Planning,Sex Education
United States: N.p., 1920s. Featuring a glamorous young woman with blonde finger waves on the cover, "The Control of Fertility in Women" educates American women in the 1920s about sterilization (both male and female) and contraception methods (including condoms, diaphragms, spermicidal foam). "Can a married couple control their fertility? .......
Price: $250.00
History of Women Having to Pay for Necessary Hygiene Products That Should Be Free
United States: E-Z Sanitary Belt, c.1905. "Lady Agents Wanted Everywhere" to sell the "E-Z Sanitary Belt", a belt for holding menstrual napkins made to be discreet and easy to use. Includes a couple photographs of a woman wearing the belt over a full-body leotard. Markets the product by emphasizing the.....
Price: $150.00
Midwifery,Medical Education
[Fairfield, New York]: 1834. Engraved invitation card (2.75" by 4"), finished in contemporary ink, inviting medical student Abram Arndt to a series of midwifery lectures given by W. Willoughby, M.D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York. The College of Physicians and Surgeons.....
Price: $150.00
Women's Health,Marketing to Women,Gender Roles
Middlefield, Connecticut: Dainty Maid Inc., 1946-1953. Two (2) items advertising feminine hygiene products by Dainty Maid Inc., makers of the "Daintette" menstrual cup and Dainty Maid brand douche and powder. Provides a window into how companied marketed these products to American women in the late 1940s and early 1950s, emphasizing.....
Price: $175.00
Patent Medicines, Meaning of Flowers
New Haven: The C.G. Clark Co., 1869. Trade catalog marketed to women, advertising patent medicines sold by the C.G. Clark Co. Contents include "A Correct Dictionary of Flowers" on the rectos, relating the meanings of over 100 different varieties of flowers; advertisements and testimonials printed on versos. Calendar for the.....
Price: $75.00
Diets and Dieting, Nutrition, Societal Pressures
United States: 1939-c.1970. A group of eight (8) items relating to women's weight loss and dieting in the United States, 1939-c.1970. All are marketed to women, and include basic nutrition information, recipes, and tips for those looking to "reduce" through dieting. Calorie counting is a major theme, as well as.....
Price: $350.00
Adolescence and Growing Up,Puberty and Sex Education,Hygiene for Young Women,Exercise and Good Grooming for Girls
Hertfordshire, England: Lilia-White Ltd, 1940s. A puberty education booklet for girls teaching them about the importance of hygiene in adolescence, ending with an advertisement for "Dr. White's" brand sanitary towels and belts. Sanitary belts were used to hold sanitary napkins in place before adhesive pads were developed. Contains the following.....
Price: $200.00
History of Contraception,The Pill,Family Planning and Contraception for Women
Raritan, New Jersey: Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, 1960s. A guide to contraceptive options for women, published by Ortho Pharmaceutical for family doctors to pass out to their female patients in the 1960s. Ortho was one of the first pharmaceutical companies to release an oral contraceptive ("the pill") in the early 1960s.....
Price: $325.00
Family Medicine, Homemaking, Marketing to Women
New York, New York: The Centaur Company, 1880. A Housekeeper's Receipt Book for the year 1880, published for homemakers by The Centaur Company, producer of family medicines. Includes: calendars for the years 1880 and 1881; dozens of recipes ranging from soups and sauces to croquettes and pates; tips for curing.....
Price: $150.00
Public Health, Breast Cancer
Silver Spring, Maryland: American Cancer Society, c.1975. Printed tri-fold pamphlet (9" by 3.75" folded) with an illustrated three-step guide to performing a self breast exam. Encourages the reader to perform a self examination monthly, and details warning signs and what to do if a lump is located. Includes black ink.....
Price: $85.00
Family Health and Hygiene,Mouthwash,Douching,Product for the Whole Family
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Lavoris Company, 1956. Printed advertisement for Lavoris brand mouthwash and antiseptic, marketed to families as a multi-use product that can be used as a mouthwash, for canker sores, for cleaning dentures, masking the odor of smoking, and even as a douche and feminine hygiene product. Includes diagrams.....
Price: $100.00
Songsters,Family Medicines,Women's Health and Medicine,Patent Medicines
Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Chattanooga Medicine Co., c.1880. A scarce pocket-sized songster advertising patent medicines sold by the Chattanooga Medicine Company, for the treatment and prevention of common family illnesses ranging from coughs and colds to rheumatism and "female diseases" (e.g. painful or delayed menstruation). Note the way in which the.....
Price: $150.00
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History of Women's Health
Missoula, Montana: Garden City Drug Co., 1913. Printed directions sheet for "Madame Le May's French Formula", a brand of "antiseptic vaginal suppositories" marketed to women as a panacea for all female ailments including: "Leucorrhea, Gonorrhea, Prolapsus, or Falling of the Womb, Inflammation, Congestion, Anteversion, Retroversion, Dropsy of the Womb, Ulceration.....
Price: $150.00
Advertising to Women,Women in Wartime,Menstrual Hygiene and Products,Tampax,Tampons
Palmer, Massachusetts: Tampax Incorporated, c.1945. Two (2) printed leaflets promoting Tampax tampons to WWII-era American women: "Seldom has a new product achieved in a short time a success equal to that of Tampax. Club women, housewives, war workers-- by the thousands-- have welcomed Tampax as a friend and emancipator". Tampons.....
Price: $225.00
Women's Health, Patent Medicines, Advertising, Misogyny, Misinformation, Childbirth and Pregnancy
Buffalo, New York: Dr. J.H. Dye Medical Institute, 1900s. A slightly later edition of 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.....
Price: $125.00
Breast Feeding,Pre- and Post-Natal Care,Public Health
Washington, D.C. U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1931-1932. Three (3) early 1930's guides published for new mothers from the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Dept. of Labor, educating women on the importance of pre- and post-natal care for mother and baby. Subjects covered include breast feeding, the importance of sunlight (to.....
Price: $225.00