Trade Card for Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, "Cures Colds & Coughs Caused by Changes in the Weather," 1886
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Artifact Overview
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
1886
Subject Date
1886
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
89.0.541.539
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Lithography
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.25 in
Width: 5 in
Inscriptions
front:
UNITED STATES STORM AND WEATHER SIGNALS DISPLAYED ON RECEIPT OF TELEGRAMS FROM THE METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU. AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL CURES COLDS & COUGHS CAUSED BY CHANGES IN THE WEATHER. J.C. AYER & CO. LOWELL, MASS. U.S.A. THE SIGNALS INDICATE THE WEATHER EXPECTED FOR 24 HOURS FROM THE TIME THEY ARE DISPLAYED. OVER.
back:
NATURE HAS ITS OWN CODE OF CAUTIONARY SIGNALS. PAINS IN THE FOREHEAD, SNEEZING, CHILLINESS, LASSITUDE, OPPRESSED BREATHING, REDNESS AND SUFFUSION OF THE EYES, SORENESS OF THE THROAT AND MUSCLES, HOARSENESS, AND COUGHING, ARE INDICATIVE OF COLDS IN VARIOUS STAGES OF PROGRESS...PREPARED BY DR. J.C. AYER & CO., LOWELL, MASS., U.S.A. SOLD BY [blank].
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