Nichols' Bark and Iron
- Title
- Nichols' Bark and Iron
- Description
- Advertisement for Nichols' Bark and Iron depicting a boy blowing a very small horn. He is standing beside a box on a table. On top of the box is a barking dog. The heading is "Nichols' Bark and Iron". At the bottom is stated: "An iron tonic a specific for ague and malarial fevers, loss of appetite, nervous prostration, headache, &c. &c." On the box is: "The best remedy for indigestion, dyspepsia, general debility, hypochondria &c." In tiny print at the bottom right corner is: Trautmann, Bailey & Blampey, N.Y. The reverse of the card states that "Nichols' Bark and Iron is an invaluable and never-failing stimulating tonic especially adapted for Clergymen, Counselors, Journalists, and persons of sedentary habits". Billings, Clapp & Co., Proprietors, Boston, Mass. For sale by F.W. Boulton, Spencer, Mass.
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 8cm x 14cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.04.02
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Children in advertising
- Dogs in advertising
- Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
- Patent medicines
- Advertising
- Anxiety/drug therapy
- Depression/drug therapy
- Dyspepsia/drug therapy
- Headache/drug therapy
- Malaria/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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