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- Pill Silverer - Early apothecaries or pharmacists mixed medicinal herbs, minerals, and other ingredients into pills for patients. They sometimes coated pills in gold or silver leaf with a pill silverer, gently rolling moistened pills in the container's gold- or silver-leafed interior. The coating may have enhanced the pill's appearance, making it seem more palatable, but the hard-to-digest coating also may have made the pill ineffective.
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Pill Silverer
Early apothecaries or pharmacists mixed medicinal herbs, minerals, and other ingredients into pills for patients. They sometimes coated pills in gold or silver leaf with a pill silverer, gently rolling moistened pills in the container's gold- or silver-leafed interior. The coating may have enhanced the pill's appearance, making it seem more palatable, but the hard-to-digest coating also may have made the pill ineffective.
- Trade Card for Hop Ointment, "The National Remedy for the Skin," Hop Pill Co., 1887 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods flooded the American market. Some enterprising advertisers sought to distinguish their products from the competition, distributing trade cards that doubled as a bookmark. Americans enjoyed and often saved the popular little advertisements, which survive as historical records of consumerism in the United States.
- 1887
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Trade Card for Hop Ointment, "The National Remedy for the Skin," Hop Pill Co., 1887
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods flooded the American market. Some enterprising advertisers sought to distinguish their products from the competition, distributing trade cards that doubled as a bookmark. Americans enjoyed and often saved the popular little advertisements, which survive as historical records of consumerism in the United States.
- Trade Card for Little Hop Pills, "Our President's Daughter," Hop Pill Manufacturing Co., 1887 - 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.
- 1887
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Trade Card for Little Hop Pills, "Our President's Daughter," Hop Pill Manufacturing Co., 1887
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.
- Trade Card for Hop Pills, Hop Pill Manufacturing Co., 1880-1890 - 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.
- 1880-1890
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Trade Card for Hop Pills, Hop Pill Manufacturing Co., 1880-1890
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.
- Trade Card for Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills, 1860-1890 - 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.
- 1860-1890
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Trade Card for Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills, 1860-1890
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.
- Pill Slab, 1700-1740 -
- 1700-1740
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Pill Slab, 1700-1740