Hires' Improved Root Beer
- Title
- Hires' Improved Root Beer
- Description
- Advertisement for Hires' Improved Root Beer depicting a woman dressed in an elegant black dress and sitting in front of an oriental folding screen. A girl dressed in an ivory dress with lace and pink bows is standing in the doorway holding a box of Hires' Improved Root Beer. In tiny print in the lower right corner is: J. Ottmann, Lith., Puck Bldg., N.Y. The reverse of the card has the heading: "What Shall We Drink?" Hires' Improved Root Beer is a popular drink and is "unquestionably one of the best blood purifiers in the world, and for kidney disease it has no equal. ... A package makes five gallons of a most delicious, sparkling, temperance drink." Sold by G.A. Francis, Pharmacist, 64 Sixth Ave., New York.
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 9cm x 14cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.13.02
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Children in advertising
- Advertising--Carbonated Beverages
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Carbonated Beverages
- Kidney Diseases/drug therapy
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Rights
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Patent Medicine Trade Cards
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