Wheat Bitters
- Title
- Wheat Bitters
- Description
- Advertisement for Wheat Bitters depicting a scene with two gentlemen and three ladies holding hands and skipping around a large rock. A giant size bottle of Wheat Bitters sits on top of the rock. A caption in the upper right corner reads: Wheat Bitters prepared by Wheat Bitters Company, New York. In small print across the bottom is: A true temperance tonic is found, hurray. The reverse of the card has the heading: What Are Phosphates? "In Wheat Bitters ... phosphates are extracted directly from the wheat and preserved in solution with the most approved vegetable bitters". It is a remedy for wasting diseases and preserving human vitality. Prepared only by Wheat Bitters Co., Office. 19 Park Place, New York.
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 13cm x 7cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.79.03
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Advertising
- Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- 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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