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Centaur Liniment and Castoria

Date: 1870 - 1890 | Identifier: LL02.12.01.11.01
The front of this cards depicts a mother elephant (Jumbo) feeding a baby elephant (Castoria) and the statement 'all mothers know what's good for baby'. The two are set on a grassy landscape with what looks like a circus tent in the bottom right corner. The reverse of the card proclaims that Centaur Liniment 'is unquestionably the most instantaneous cure of pains, burns, swellings, galls, and lameness.' (Outside sources states that The Centaur Company of New York manufactured Centaur Liniment and Fletcher's Castoria). more...
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Description
The front of this cards depicts a mother elephant (Jumbo) feeding a baby elephant (Castoria) and the statement 'all mothers know what's good for baby'. The two are set on a grassy landscape with what looks like a circus tent in the bottom right corner. The reverse of the card proclaims that Centaur Liniment 'is unquestionably the most instantaneous cure of pains, burns, swellings, galls, and lameness.' (Outside sources states that The Centaur Company of New York manufactured Centaur Liniment and Fletcher's Castoria).
Contributor(s)
P.T. Barnum (Firm)
Centaur Company (New York)
Date
1870 - 1890
Call Number
LL02.12.01.11.01
Additional Resources
Collection(s)
Laupus Health Sciences History Collections
- Patent Medicine Trade Cards
Health and Medicine
Manufacturing and Business

Subject(s)
Patent medicines
Advertising as Topic
Liniments--therapeutic use
Elephants in art
Nonprescription Drugs--History

Finding Aid
Advertising Collection
Location (spatial)
United States--New York (State)--New York (N.Y.)
Type
still image
Medium
trade cards
Physical Description
10.3cm x 7.8cm
Rights Note
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Persistent URL
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