Vaseline
- Title
- Vaseline
- Description
- The front of this card depicts a young couple skating on a frozen pond, the woman wearing a red dress with a camel-brown coat, a red scarf on her head and carrying a hand muff and the young man wearing blue coat, brown hat with a red scarf around his neck. The young man has his left arm extended, with his hand holding a stick and pointing forward. The words "Vaseline, Chesebrough Manfg. Co., No.110 Front St., New York; No.41 Holborn Viaduct, London E.C.; No.246 Notre Dame St., Montreal." At the bottom in tiny print is stamped Wemple & Company, New York. The reverse of the card displays a poem written in honor of "The Elixir Vitae". At the bottom are listed: Pure Vaseline (for medicinal use), Pomade Vaseline (for the hair), Vaseline Cold Cream (for skin), Vaseline Camphor Ice (chapped skin), Vaseline Toilet Soap, and Vaseline Confections (for internal use).
- Date
- 1870-1890
- Original Format
- trade cards
- Extent
- 10cm x 6cm
- Local Identifier
- LL02.12.01.14.03
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Advertising
- Advertising
- Skin Care
- Soaps
- Hair Preparations/therapeutic use
- Nonprescription Drugs/history
- Ointments/therapeutic use
- Pharyngitis/drug therapy
- Skin Diseases/drug therapy
- 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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