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PID Identifier Title Date
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39700 LL 02.12.02.01.06
Wampole's Preparation
undated
Yellow and green ink blotter advertisement featuring Wampole's Preparation prepared by Seminary Pharmacy, Inc., Yonkers, N. Y. It promotes "better health the year around" and is a "tonic and stimulant for young and old." The advertisement depicts a bottle of the tonic and has a calendar around the border with each month's birthstone, flower, and their meanings. The reverse is pink and shows heavy use.
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39701 LL 02.12.03.01.01
Dr. A. W. Chase's Medicines Booklet
undated
Booklet with "Are You Fit?" and images of soldiers circa World War I on cover. Information about potential ailments, information about Dr. A. W. Chase's pills, and testimonials on the success of his treatments.
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39702 LL 02.12.03.01.02
Dr. Miles Restorative Remedies Booklet
undated
"Useful Ideas" features helpful hints and suggestions for around the house (such as solution to preserve eggs, onions as disinfectant, and garden soil), as well as ailments Dr. Miles' pills can treat (such as ear aches, headaches, and avoiding nervousness).
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39703 LL 02.12.01.07.20
Hood's Tooth Powder
bet. 1870-1890
The front of this card depicts a cheerful face of a young woman with brown curly hair looking out at you from the hole torn in a newspaper. She is smiling with her teeth showing. The title of the newspaper says it is "Hood's Latest." At the bottom is stated: "Hood's Tooth Powder whitens and beautifies the teeth, sweetens the breath, and hardens the gums. Only twenty five cents a bottle." The reverse of the card states that dentists endorse this product and includes three testimonies. Hood's Tooth Powder is prepared only by C. I. Hood and Co., Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass.
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39704 LL 02.12.01.07.21
Hood's Sarsaparilla
1898
The card is small with rounded corners and displays the American flag with 45 stars. The caption below the flag states that "Hood's Sarsaparilla is the Best Money Can Buy." The reverse of the card has the number "E 2" at the top and lists Queen Regent Christina, Senor Sagasta, The Cortes, and Kingdom of Spain inside a rectangle with a star in each corner. This card is from the 1898 Hood's Sarsaparilla War Game Set of 52 cards.
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39705 LL 02.12.01.23.23
Ayer's Cathartic Pills
bet. 1870-1890
Advertisement for Ayer's Cathartic Pills depicting seven naked boys packing and wrapping wooden boxes of Ayer's Pills. The caption is: "Ayer's Cathartic Pills. A safe pleasant and reliable Family Medicine." Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. The reverse of the card states that Ayer's Pills "are compounded from the extracted and concentrated virtues of purely vegetable substances, and combine the choicest cathartic principles in medicine." Ayer's Pills are adapted for curing ailments of the stomach, liver, and bowels. They cure jaundice, indigestion, headache, dizziness, and biliousness. The pills are put up in wooden boxes, and in damp climates glass vials are used instead.
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39706 LL 02.12.01.23.24
Ayer's Sarsaparilla
bet. 1870-1890
Advertisement for Ayer's Sarsaparilla depicting an older couple, she with a bottle in her left hand, and he holding a sheet of paper. On the back of the sheet of paper is "Ayer's Sarsaparilla cures scrofula, sores, boils, humours, tetter, eczema, dyspepsia, catarrh, rheumatism, debility, all disorders of the blood." The caption below the picture: Ayer's Sarsaparilla The Deacon: "Land sake Liza, the very sight of that bottle makes me feel like another man." At the very bottom are the words "Ayer's Sarsaparilla is a compound concentrated extract- the strongest, best cheapest blood medicine." The reverse of the card states that Ayer's Sarsaparilla is "a highly concentrated extract of the genuine Honduras Sarsaparilla and other choice medicines." Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
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39707 LL 02.12.01.39.04
Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure
bet. 1870-1890
Advertisement for Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure depicting a young woman with long blond hair and a red dress holding a bottle of tonic in her right hand. To the right is a man sitting in a high-back chair with his stocking feet resting on a stool. A black box of Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure is on the lower right corner. The reverse of the card is blank.
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39708 LL 02.12.01.42.09
Parker's Tonic
bet. 1870-1890
Advertisement for Parker's Tonic depicting a girl in bed and a white and brown dog with its front paws on top of her. The words at the bottom of the picture are: "The bloom of health again rests on the cheeks of our darling, thanks to Parker's Tonic." In tiny print below the picture is: Wemple & Co., N.Y. The reverse of the card states that Parker's Hair Balsam "Never Fails to Restore the Youthful Color & Beauty to Gray Hair." It will stop the falling of hair and prevent dandruff. Sells for 50 cents and $1.00. Parker's Tonic is a "Perfect and Superlative Health Restorative." It is a cure for indigestion, diarrhea, dysentery, rheumatism, malaria, neuralgia, colic, and stomach, liver,and kidney diseases. Testimonial included. Cost is 50 cents and $1.00. Hiscox & Co., 163 Williams Street, New York.
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39709 LL 02.12.01.50.02
Scovill's Sarsaprailla
bet. 1870-1890
Advertisement of Scovill's Sarsaparilla depicting two lovely Victorian women, one dressed in blue and one dressed in red. The woman in red is holding a bottle of Scovill's Sarsaparilla. The caption above the picture is: A Good Angel's Visit. A Tale of Scovill's Sarsaparilla or Blood & Liver Syrup. The reverse of the card has the heading: Scovill's Sarsaparilla and Stillingia, or, Blood and Liver Syrup. It is a remedy for scrofula, cancer, erysipelas, gout, syphilis, carbuncles, and malaria. John F. Henry & Co., also proprietors of Dr.Wm. Hall's Balsam for the lungs, Henry's Carbolic Salve, Baker's Pain Panacea, Mott's Liver Pills.
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39710 LL 02.12.01.70.11
Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer
bet. 1870-1890
Advertisement for Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer depicting a lady with long curly hair and wearing a long pink dress. She is sitting on the grass surrounded by eight little naked angels. Each one is doing a different activity including fanning the lady, holding a bottle of Hall's Hair Renewer, holding a mirror, playing a horn, and fixing the lady's hair. There are two rabbits in the right corner of the picture and two birds flying a wagon full of hair renewer. The caption is: "Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer Prevents gray hairs and baldness." In tiny print at the bottom right corner is: Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, Lith., N.Y. The reverse of the card states to use Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer and "your gray hair will soon become the color it was when you were younger, and the weak hair will be strengthened, and new hair will start and grow where now it is thin". It stops falling hair, dandruff, itching, and leaves the hair soft. Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers is a "preparation to change the color of the Beard and Mustache to a natural brown or black". R. P. Hall & Co., Proprietors, Nashua, N. H.
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39711 LL 02.12.01.74.10
Scott's Emulsion
1887
This card depicts a blonde-haired little girl, dressed in a white lace nightgown with a large pink bow on one shoulder, reclining on her side with her arms around three small kittens while a small dog looks on from behind. "Scott's Emulsion" is written on one of the pillows. At the bottom is "La Nichee (The Nest)" and "Copyright, 1887, by Scott & Browne N. Y." On the bottom left in tiny print is printed "G. H. Buek & Co., Lith., N. Y." The reverse of the card has the title "The Little Pets" and tells of the beautiful little girl and how her health could speedily change. Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with the Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda eradicates diseases of every kind and restores health and vigor. Sold by all druggists.
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39712 LL 02.12.01.77.09
Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient
bet. 1870-1890
Advertisement for Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient depicting a very young girl in a white dress sitting in a basket with the lid up. The basket is trimmed in blue fabric and ribbons. Pink flowers and green leaves decorate the left side of the basket. A sign on the front states "Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, To Regulate the Stomach, the Liver, the Bowels." The writing at the bottom states "To cure Indigestion, Biliousness, Constipation." The reverse of the cards states "Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient should be taken in the spring to remove the feeling of lassitude, in the summer to keep the head and blood cool, in the autumn to aid digestion, and all season to cure costivenss." In tiny print following the information is "Donaldson Brothers, N. Y."
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39713 LL 02.12.01.78.05
Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills
bet. 1870-1890
Advertisement for Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills depicting a young girl scooping fish out of a fish tank. "Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills" appears across the top and "W. H. Comstock, Sole Proprietors, Morristown, N. Y." appears across the bottom. The reverse of the card states "That you can rely upon the Morse's Pills to do all that is claimed." Nothing specific is stated on the card. At the bottom is "for sale by" and stamped Thos. Voorhies. Voorhies, Lewis Co., Tenn.
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39714 LL 02.12.01.82.01
Hunt's Remedy
1883
This card depicts a brown-haired girl with blue eyes. She is wearing a blue sailor cap with "Hunt's Remedy" written on the band and a blue middy blouse. In small print at the bottom are the words, "Copyrighted 1883" and "Compliments of Hunt's Remedy Co." The reverse of the card has the heading "Hunt's Remedy, the Best Kidney and Liver Medicine Never Known to Fail." Hunt's Remedy cures kidney, liver, and bladder organs, dropsy, diabetes, back pain, nervous diseases, female weakness, jaundice, headache, dyspesia, constipation, and more. Price is 75 cents and $1.25. Hunt's Remedy Co., Providence, R. I. It is sold at V. C. Calkins, Druggist, in Bergen, New York. In tiny print at the bottom is "Major & Knapp Lith. Co., N. Y."
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39715 CD 01.100.00.01
International Pocket Medical Formulary
1890
International pocket medical formulary used by three doctors in Spring Hope, North Carolina. Dr. W. M. Edwards received the book in 1890 and carried the book in his back pocket while traveling on horseback. The book was passed on to Dr. Julius R. Vann in 1927, who in turn passed it on to Dr. Julian M. Warren. Measurements of the first scan: 170X103
Fixed: missing pgs 177-178 (should be scans 302-303) FIXED:missing pg 41 (should be between scans 83,84); missing pgs 48-49, (should be scans 90-91; scans 208-209 duplicates; missing pgs 240-blank (should be scans 386-387;
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39716 CD 01.53.00.02
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's Journal
1851-1852
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's journals from his travels and studies while in Europe. Begins 23 June 1851 when Pittman left his home in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He traveled to New York City and on 1 July set sail for England. On 13 July, Pittman arrived in Liverpool, England. In the rest of the journal he writes about his time in England and then traveling to and explorations in Paris. The majority of the journal ends 16 Nov 1851 with several blank pages before one last entry dated 14 March 1852 in Paris. Measurements of first scan: 97X146
Duplicates that need Deleted: Scan #: 10, 11, 20, 21, 114, 115, 120, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 166, 167, 168, 169, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205 Need straightened: Scan 162, 163 Need Crop Fixed: Scan 162
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39717 CD 01.53.00.03
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's Journal
1852
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's journals from his travels and studies while in Europe. The journal begins 31 March 1852 and covers Pittman's time in France (including Lyons and Marseilles), Italy (including Genoa, Rome, Naples, Sorrento, and Turin), and Switzerland. The journal ends 23 June 1852. Measurements of first scan: 97x146
Straighten Scans: 124, 144, 146, 148, 150, 192, 212 Delete duplicate scans: 134, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 156, 157
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39718 CD 01.53.00.04
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's Journal
1852
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's journals from his travels and studies while in Europe. The journal includes Pittman's travels in Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, and Prussia before returning to Paris. The journal covers from 22 June to 29 July 1852. Measurements of first scan: 92x147
Color is off: Scan 1 Straighten: Scan 16, 48, 69, 71
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39719 CD 01.53.00.05
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's Journal
1852
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's journals from his travels and studies while in Europe. Journal with various ailments and conditions Pittman saw and the treatments delivered. Journal covers from 31 August 1852 to 24 November 1852. Measurements of first scan: 140x84
Measurements of first scan: 140x84 -FIXED: move scan 4 between scans 2 and 3 and scan the back of the insert in scan 4, straighten 104
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39720 CD 01.53.00.06
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's Journal
1852-1853
Dr. Newsom Jones Pittman's journals from his travels and studies while in Europe. The journal begins with Pittman leaving Paris for London, and then his travels in Scotland and Ireland. It begins 11 March 1853 and ends 21 April 1853. measurements of first scan: 91x147
delete scans 78-79 because duplicates, 130-131 duplicates, measurements of first scan: 91x147