Best Tonic
- Title
- Best Tonic
- Description
- Advertisement for The Best Tonic depicting a portrait of a lovely woman dressed in a black high neck dress with a brooch. Outside sources indicate the portrait is of Mrs. Grover Cleveland. In tiny writing in the lower left corner is: Julius Bien & Co., Lith., N.Y. In the lower right corner is the company logo: Copyrighted and Published by The Phil Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Specialty Department. The reverse of the card states that "The Best Tonic, a delicious liquid extract of malt and hops gives strength to the weak, sleep to the nervous, power to the brain, health to the dyspeptic, ecstasy to the epicure." Testimonial included. Price is 25 cents each.
- Date
- 1887
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 7cm x 11cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.67.02
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Advertising
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Dyspepsia/drug therapy
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders/drug therapy
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Rights
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Laupus Health Sciences History Collections
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Health and Medicine
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Manufacturing and Business
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards
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- Advertising Collection from the Laupus Library History Collections
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