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Dr. A.J. Townsend & Sons Advertisement
Advertising card for Dr. Townsend & Sons of Wyocena, manufacturers of all kinds of fluid extracts, liniments, etc.
Electricity in a Bottle
1886
Advertising ephemera for Electricity in a Bottle by the West Electric Cure Co. of Chicago which claimed to cure catarrh, hay fever, headache, asthma, and neuralgia. The ad is in the shape of a medi...
DeLaval Separator Trade Card
1895
Trade card advertising a cream separator manufactured by the DeLaval Company. Features color illustration of the implement. The card dates to the company's early history, perhaps to an exhibit at ...
Willson Monarch Remedies Wagon
1935
Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toilet articles."
You Blow the Powder
Advertising for Dr. Birney's Catarrhal Powder, showing a drawing of a woman administering a treatment to herself by blowing the powder up her own nose through a tube. The ad is stamped by Sherman &...
Horse-Drawn Patent Medicines Wagon
January 7, 1937
A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufactured patent medicines, extracts, spices, ...
