Patent medicine labels and advertisements (Library of Congress)
Catalog Record: http://lccn.loc.gov/2002696083
General International Standard for Archival Description
Prints & Photographs Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
Finding aid converted by Prints & Photographs Division staff June 2002
Encoded Archival Description
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002
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Patent medicine labels and advertisements ca. 1830-1895
ca. 420 prints : engravings, etchings, lithographs, b&w and color ; 33 x 43 cm. or smaller.
Scope and Content Note Examples of topics depicted include American Indians, animals, children, flowers, medicinal plants, mythological characters, people taking or administering medications, sick and cured people, symbols, and women. Also includes genre prints, portraits of product promoters or developers.
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Angels
Bible illustration, etc.
Bicycles & tricycles
Caricatures & cartoons
Children
Civil War soldiers
Cows & horses
Crests, seals, symbols
Disease (woman shown before & after treatment)
Eagles
Egyptian motif
Europe/East India
Fairies
Far East (Japan/China)
Father Knickerbocker
Flag (U.S.)
Florida water
Flowers, fruit, trees
Hairdressing products
Harpist
Heart & lungs
Indians
Knight wearing armor
Laboratory for making magnetic remedies
Medical instrument (inhaling tube)
Medical instrument (magnetic cap)
Mothers & children
Mythology (mermaids, unicorns, gods)
Niagara Fall, N.Y.
Congress Spring, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Nursing to the sick (people taking elixirs)
Phoenix
Portraits: doctors, inventors
Print labels (no illustrations)
Rhode Island
Saint George and the dragon
Scenes (genre views)
South America
Stores, factories, warehouses
Transporation
Women (sentimental)
Zouaves
Miscellany