Advertising Collection
1880-1960, undated
The Country Doctor Museum Manuscript Collection, CD 01.50- Creator(s)
- Country Doctor Museum (Bailey, Nash County, N.C.)
- Physical description
- 1.369 Cubic Feet
- Preferred Citation
- Advertising Collection (CD 01.50), The Country Doctor Museum, at The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
- Repository
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Access
- No restrictions
Advertising material mainly for drugs. It includes advertisements, package inserts, warning labels, pamphlets, paper dolls, journals, 1 wrapper, and 1 fan.
Scope and arrangement
Advertising material mainly for drugs. It includes advertisements, package inserts, warning labels, pamphlets, paper dolls, journals, 1 wrapper, and 1 fan.
Administrative information
Custodial History
Donor information unknown.
2019 June 18: Paper doll advertisements, 6 medical journals, and a booklet. Gift of Evelyn K. Duncan.
Source of acquisition
Donor information unknown
Gift of Evelyn K. Duncan
Processing information
Initial inventories prepared by Charlotte Critcher, 2015. Processed by Melissa Nasea, 2015. Updated by Layne Carpenter, 2017 and 2019.
Copyright notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Metadata Rights Declaration
Language of material
English
Key terms
Topical
Nonprescription DrugsPatent medicines
Prescription Drugs
Container list
Box 1 Folder 1
Dr. Miles' Restorative Re[medies]; ManZan Piles; "Five Drops" Salve (also "Five Drop" Salve), Humphrey's Witch Hazel pamphlet, Humphrey's Specific Manual, undated
Box 1 Folder 2
DeWitt's Antiseptic Powder; DeWitt's Little Early Risers; Dollar bottle Kodol Dyspepsia Cure; A word of warning by E.C. DeWitt Company; DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve (two versions), undated
Box 1 Folder 3
Latrol, undated
Oversize Folder 3
Sex-ine Pills (also Sexine Pills) [sold by Pioneer Drug Store, Virginia City, Nevada], undated
Box 1 Folder 4
Paris Medicine Company Advertisements, undated
Box 1 Folder 5
Micellaneous Druggist Advertisements and Price Lists, ca 1880, undated
Box 1 Folder 20
Hall's Pharmacy Wilmington, NC, 1901-1930
Box 1 Folder 6
Pharmaceutical Inserts and Pamphlets (Alidase; Ledercillin), 1947-1950
Box 1 Folder 7
Pharmaceutical Inserts and Pamphlets (Dicrysticin; Polycycline Intramuscular; Achromycin; Clinical uses of Pyridium; Alevaire; Thorazine in obstetrics; Monodral Bromide; Monodral Bromide with Mebaral; Drug index, Sandoz; Intramuscular use of Varidase; Varidase; Senokot), 1941-1955, undated
Box 1 Folder 8
Pharmaceutical Inserts and Pamphlets (B.L. Fahnestock's Vermigude, Hoyt's German Cologne, Hood's Sarsaparilla), 1896, undated
Box 1 Folder 9
Drug Warning Labels (Laudanum; chloroform; castor oil; calomel), undated
Box 1 Folder 10
Mellin's Food for Invalids and Infants (wrapper; general instructions), undated
Box 1 Folder 11
Putnam Fadeless Dyes-Tints (advertising fan), undated
Oversize Folder 3
"Forward" nursing photographs; print of an illuminated "The Oath of Hippocrates", 1960, undated
Box 1 Folder 12
The Development of Baby's Teeth, undated
Box 1 Folder 13
The Food of the Infant and the Growing Child (Karo Syrup), 1936
Box 1 Folder 13
Hoods Pills Paper Dolls, 1895
Box 1 Folder 14
Jayne's Animal Paper Play Set, 1895
Box 1 Folder 15
Jayne's Paper Dolls, 1900
Box 1 Folder 16
Jayne's Promotional Book "Dream Book, Fortune Teller", 1932
Box 1 Folder 17
Dolly's Trunk Warners Corset Promotional Item, 1920
Oversize Folder 2
Dolly Dingle Paper Dolls, 1918
Oversize Folder 4
My Ladye Faire Doll, 1897 June 13
Box 1 Folder 18
New York Medical Journal, 1917 January 20
Box 1 Folder 19
The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1912 October 19
Box 2 Folder 1
The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1915 January 30
Box 2 Folder 2
The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1925 August 8
Box 2 Folder 3
The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1925 October 24
Box 2 Folder 4
The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1926 January 23
Box 2 Folder 6
Prescription Pamphlets, undated
Box 2 Folder 7
Vioform-Hydrocortisone Photo Slides, undated