Description
Twenty-four chromolithographed patent medicine and druggist trade cards from the 1870s–1890s: cherubs boxing pills, sickroom scenes, shop windows full of jars, nurses, babies in baskets and root gatherers. Full-color scans with their reverse sides, plus 48 hand-traced cutouts of the best characters, bottles, signs and seals.
What’s inside
- Originals ZIP: 24 card fronts and 20 backs at original scan size
- Cutouts ZIP: 48 transparent PNGs, each with its source card
- SOURCES.txt and license notes in each ZIP
The cards
- 01. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral: giant bottle
- 02. Ayer’s: cherubs boxing pills
- 03. Drugstore window with crowd
- 04. Hop pills: shop window of jars
- 05. Hall’s Balsam: sickroom and doctor
- 06. Gentleman with medicine glass at his desk
- 07. Parsons’ Pills: before and after
- 08. The convalescent mother
- 09. Sarsaparilla: woman at mirror with bottle
- 10. Swimmer holding a medicine bottle
- 11. Seltzer Aperient: baby in basket
- 12. Seltzer Aperient: girl in basket
- 13. Seltzer Aperient: reading by the window
- 14. Seltzer Aperient: gentleman with bottle
- 15. Seltzer Aperient: dressing table
- 16. Ointment labels ring with crying baby
- 17. Cherub carrying malt extract bottle
- 18. Rheumatic cure: bandaged foot
- 19. Liver pills: crow and box
- 20. Gilded frame, die-cut
- 21. Worm lozenges: mother and children
- 22. Pain reliever: man with stove
- 23. Malt extract: nurse and patient
- 24. May apple root gatherers
The cutouts
- From card 01: Children with a giant medicine bottle, Girl in white, Baby hugging the bottle, Cherry branch
- From card 03: Biliousine sign, Shop-window bottles
- From card 05: Doctor in top hat, Hall’s Balsam bottle
- From card 06: Gentleman with tonic bottle, Gentleman in his red armchair, Toy locomotive on its shelf, Two medicine bottles, Copying press on the desk
- From card 07: Doctor with pills, Blood Purifier bottle
- From card 08: Convalescent mother and family, Peacock
- From card 09: Hand holding Sarsaparilla bottle
- From card 10: Swimmer holding up a medicine bottle, Bottle in hand, Sailboat
- From card 11: Baby in the Seltzer basket
- From card 12: Girl in the Seltzer basket
- From card 13: Bottle and glass on table, Gentleman reading in his armchair, Tarrant’s Seltzer seal
- From card 14: Gentleman with Seltzer glass, Seltzer bottle on table, Tarrant’s Seltzer seal
- From card 15: Lady with Seltzer at the dresser
- From card 16: Baby with finger in mouth
- From card 17: Cherub carrying a malt bottle
- From card 18: Lady pouring Rheumatic Cure, Gentleman with bandaged feet, Warner’s Safe bottle, Bottle in her hands
- From card 19: Crow with pill packet, Carter’s Little Liver Pills sign
- From card 20: Gilded frame with girl in bonnet
- From card 21: Mother with children, Vermifuge bottle and box
- From card 22: Man carrying a stove
- From card 23: Nurse pouring tonic, Nurse and patient oval vignette, Hands pouring malt extract into a glass
- From card 24: Root gatherers, Girl gathering roots, Boy with basket
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