Hood's Sarsaparilla
- Title
- Hood's Sarsaparilla
- Description
- Advertisement for Hood's Sarsaparilla depicting five children (four girls and one boy) in a seated area and a lighted circle projected on a wall or screen. The words: "Take Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify your blood 100 doses $1.00" are within the circle. One girl is reading the projected message and two girls are looking behind their seats at the the other girl (who is sucking a peppermint stick) and the little boy. The reverse of the card is primarily an advertisement for a grand concert following Forepaugh's Great Show (a circus). Included is a list of artists for the concert. At the bottom of the card it is stated that Hood's Sarsaparilla cures scrofula, dyspepsia, headache, catarrh, and rheumatism.
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 7cm x 12cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.07.05
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Catarrh
- Children in advertising
- Circus
- Concerts
- Sarsaparilla
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Smilax
- Common Cold/drug therapy
- Dyspepsia/drug therapy
- Headache/drug therapy
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Rheumatic Diseases/drug therapy
- Tuberculosis, Lymph Node/drug therapy
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Rights
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Health and Medicine
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards
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- Advertising Collection from the Laupus Library History Collections
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