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
AIDS, HIV, AIDs epidemic, informational pamphlets, health, social services,
Boston, MA: AIDS Action Committee, [1985]. A pair of pamphlets, entitled "What Do We Know About AIDS?" and "Guidelines for AIDS Risk Reduction - Update", both produced by the AIDS Action Committee, now known as AIDS Action. Original formed by Fenway Community Health as a response to the AIDS epidemic.....
Price: $125.00
Hydropathy,Homeopathy,Healing Waters,Medical Tourism,19th Century Medicine
Waterford, Maine: [Hydropathic Establishment at Waterford], 1849. Advertising circular for a Waterford, Maine "Water-Cure Establishment" that treated a host of patient afflictions with "Hydropathy", or healing waters: "The world is already indebted to Homeopathy for a better system of practice, and for exposing to common daylight the uncertainties of medicine.....
Price: $425.00
Asthma, Pulmonary, antispasmodic medicines
Meadville, Pennsylvania: Dr. J.D. Stoneroad & Co., c.1889. Advertising flyer (8.75" by 5.5") for Sozone, an antispasmodic for the treatment of asthma as well as "spasmodic croup, whooping cough, or hacking cough of phthisis, and in all spasmodic cases where the pneumogastric nerve is involved" (verso). On the recto is.....
Price: $125.00
Sanatoriums
Denver, Colorado: Agnes Memorial Sanatorium, 1916. The personal health record book of a Ms. Greenough Gregory of Westminster, Colorado, offered here with a tri-fold postcard depicting the Agnes Memorial Sanatorium; on the reverse of the postcard, Ms. Greenough Gregory has recorded in neat ink a very detailed description of the.....
Price: $200.00
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
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
Get Well, Social History, Novelty
1920s-1950s. A collection of 110 different get well cards, predominantly for children and dating from the 1930s to the 1950s with others 1910 to 2000. A majority of the cards in this collection are light-hearted in nature and intended to ?cheer-up? the recipient. Selected from a 30 plus year extensive.....
Price: $1,000.00
Water Cures, Patent Medicine, Hidden Message, Paper with a Secret
[Boston, Massachusetts]: Commonwealth Mineral Spring Water, c.1900. Advertising card for Commonwealth Mineral Spring Water, with a humorous image of two men on the recto alongside bold claims for the water's efficacy as a cure-all: "It is a sure cure for Dyspepsia, Liver and Kidney Complaints, and other Chronic Diseases". On.....
Price: $115.00
Patent Medicines,Poison
New York, New York: Mr. Fellows, c.1905. A brief educational booklet for patients advertising the patent medicine Fellows' Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites, a mixture of iron, quinine, strychnine (yes, the poison), lime, manganese, and potash (i.e. potassium chloride). Includes brief descriptions of pneumonia, influenza, malaria, whooping cough, and diphtheria. Defends.....
Price: $175.00
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
Medicinal Waters,Health and Wellness Tourism,Spring Water
Cowlesville, New York: Cowlesville Mineral Well Company, 1874. Printed circular promoting the healing waters at the Cowlesville Mineral Well, located in Cowlesville, New York. Provides the reader with a scientific breakdown of the minerals in the water as evidence of its health benefits. An early example of "healing" or "medicinal".....
Price: $225.00
fire, fire safety, french canadian, kitchen fire, cooking, public works, government, death, mortality
Quebec, Canada: Ministry of Public Works, 1940s. A fire-safety postcard distributed by the Ministry of Public Works in Quebec. The blotter is specifically warning against cooking fires. On the right side of the postcard is a black and white illustration of a woman cooking on the stove as she appears.....
Price: $55.00
Fraternal Organization, Ethnic Based Unionism, Trade Association, Ceremonial Attire
Covington, KY: c1900. A 14" x 15 1/2" printed ceremonial apron depicting a butcher's tools - sharpening steel, cleaver, knife and saw. It is captioned Deutscher Metzger Verein (German Butcher Association) Covington, Kenton Co., KY. The association members would march in full butcher uniform, including their ceremonial apron for convention.....
Price: $550.00
Nutrition and Diet,Family Medicine,Advertising to Doctors,Health Foods
Battle Creek, Michigan: Battle Creek Food Company, 1928. An interesting view into nutritional care in the late 1920s: a guide to building a better diet for family doctors and general practitioners, published by the makers of the laxative "Psylla" and the probiotic "Lacto-Dextrin". Includes information on a range of subjects.....
Price: $275.00
mineral spring, sulfur springs, baths, sanitarium, health resort, spa
Dillsboro, IN: The Dillsboro Sanitarium, [1915]. An advertising booklet for the Dillsboro Sanitarium, a health resort, established in 1912 that used mineral springs to cure a variety of ailments. On of their advertised 'secret of out treatment' was elimination, as the mineral water had laxative properties. This particular side effect.....
Price: $75.00
Medicine and Advertising, Marketing to Domestic Workers, Home Medicines
Atlanta, Georgia: Dr. H.H. Green's Sons, c1912. Booklet advertising Dr. Green's Sons' remedy for dropsy, including a summary of the company, description of the affliction, several testimonials, and a mail-in order form with health questionnaire. Also includes several blank pages of lined paper for notes, and tips for domestic workers.....
Price: $95.00
International Friendship and Tolerance,Personal Hygiene,Public Health
New York, New York: Cleanliness Institute, 1927. A series of eight (8) illustrated cards depicting personal hygiene and cleanliness practices around the world, with an emphasis on international friendship and tolerance. The illustrations originally appeared in Grace T. Hallock's "After the Rain: Cleanliness Customs of Children in Many Lands", published.....
Price: $325.00
social welfare, child welfare, charity, business history
Scranton, PA: Republican Job Printing House, 1877. The fifth annual report for the Home for the Friendless Women and Children of the City of Scranton. The book starts off by listing the coming year's, 1877, list of officers, managers, auditors, and Advisory Committee Members, before continuing on to the Home's.....
Price: $125.00
First Aid,Emergencies,Public Health,Cold War and the Atomic Bomb
United States: 1943-c.1950. A group of three (3) first aid booklets from 1943 to c.1950 for families and the the general public, educating them in first aid. Two of the booklets advertise family products sold by McKesson & Robbins, Inc., and the other is a government-issued public health booklet. First.....
Price: $175.00
Menopause, Sexual Health and Education
Princeton, New Jersey: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, 1985. An educational booklet for women approaching menopause. Includes a general overview, along with more detailed information about its physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms and effects. It closes with a description of how to manage symptoms medically. Interestingly, the booklet has a section titled.....
Price: $150.00
Froebel Kindergarten, History of New York, Social Work, Public Health and Hygiene
New York, New York: Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, 1908. Fourth Annual Report of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, featuring a photograph on the upper wrapper of over a dozen schoolchildren and their social workers in front of the Bloomingdale Guild. The organization's purpose was "To raise higher educational and social ideals"; "To.....
Price: $150.00