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Rare Books
Promotional recipe book using KC Baking Powder issued by manufacturer.
641456
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Rare Books
Promotional recipe book using KC Baking Powder issued by manufacturer.
641499
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Rare Books
Promotional recipe book issued by manufacturer to utilize KC baking powder.
641631
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Rare Books
Promotional literature for D. Ransom, Son & Co., manufacturer of Trask's Magetic Ointment, Ransom's Hive Syrup and Tolu, Miller's Magnetic Balm, etc.; includes cooking recipes and testimonials for advertised products.
642049
Visual Materials
One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled The Calumet Prize Drawing Book, No. 1, published by Calumet Baking Powder Company, Chicago, ca. 1902. This booklet contains 6 leaves of black and white lithograph illustrations, each covered by a leaf of tracing paper. The inside of the front cover, as well as the recto of the first illustration, contain advertisements for Calumet Baking Powder. Two illustrated advertising rhymes are found on the verso of the last leaf and on the inside of the back cover. Instructions for use of this drawing book are found on the inside of the front cover. Some of the illustrations for copying are: a rhinoceros, a train, tulips and a can of Calumet Baking Powder. The front cover is a chromolithograph illustration of children dressed for a parade. "M. Umbdenstock & Co." (presumably the lithographer) is printed at the bottom of the inside of the back cover.
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Visual Materials
Image of a double-fold leaflet advertising Watkins Vegetable Anodyne Liniment manufactured by the J.R. Watkins Medical Company of Winona, Minnesota; image of horse-drawn vehicle, bust-length portrait of J.R. Watkins, directions for use, and list of ailments it can be used to treat on recto; shorter advertisements for Watkins Germicide and Watkins Fly Powder and General Insecticide with product packaging images on verso; descriptions of Watkins Vegetable Anodyne Liniment in German and Norwegian also included on verso.
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