Allen's Root Beer Extract
- Title
- Allen's Root Beer Extract
- Description
- The front of this card depicts a young girl sitting in a meadow with a doll feeding two birds from the palm of her hand. The reverse proclaims 'Do Not Drink Ice Water!' and promotes the ease of using extract over Medicinal Roots to make Root Beer. From the card: 'Allen's Root Beer Extract makes a splendid drink for children, being made from Roots and Barks, (Ginger, Dandelion, Hops, Wintergreen, etc.,) making a pleasant and healthy beverage. Price, 25 cents... is a medicine as well as a beverage, acting gently on the Kidneys and Liver.' Sold by C.E. Carter, Pharmacist (Lowell, Mass.).
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 6cm x 10cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.06.02
- Subject(s)
- Children in advertising
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Plant Extracts
- Plants, Medicinal
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- 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
- Location of Original
- Advertising Collection from the Laupus Library History Collections
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