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Hunnewell’s standard preparations

Description: Image of an advertisement for Hunnewell’s standard preparations, pills, and treatments; rocky landscape with trees and mountains at center framed by packages of Hunnewell's remedies for coughs, headache, and other ailments.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1856-1872
Call number: priJLC_MED_002619
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the medicine prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Standard Fertilizers

Visual Materials

Image of bags of fertilizer and barrels of crops "Grown With Standard Fertilizers" and "Grown Without" on a balance scale showing Standard Fertilizer to be the superior choice in an advertisement for Standard Fertilizer Company of Boston, Massachusetts.

priJLC_AGR_001790

Hood’s sarsaparilla

Visual Materials

Image of three owls on a branch with a box of Hood's Sarsaparilla restorative tonic in a die-cut stand-up advertisement; list of pills, soap, and other preparations with descriptions and prices on verso.

priJLC_MED_002613

Standard Life Insurance Co

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Standard Life Insurance Company of New York City; George Washington standing next to a saddled horse in foreground; building with large American flag flying above it at left with ships in a harbor in background; officers of company listed at bottom center; trustees of company on shields at bottom left and right.

priJLC_FIN_002592

The Hop annual

Visual Materials

Image of a tri-fold leaflet advertising products manufactured by Hop Pill Manufacturing Company of New London, Connecticut; 8 panels advertise Little Hop Pills, Hop Ointment, and Hop Veterinary Ointment with testimonials, directions, and lists of ailments that can be treated with each; image of a little girl with a doll, rolled package of pills, and dog on recto; image of Hop Pill Manufacturing Company crest with lion, before-and-after images of a woman's complexion, and a horse on verso.

priJLC_MED_004711

Harvell's condition powders. For horses and cattle

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Harvell's condition powders and Herrick's pills & plasters for livestock; racehorse named Dexter ridden by a jockey at center on a racetrack; grandstand and people viewing the race in background at left.

priJLC_AGR_001821

White's golden tonic for horses out of condition

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for White's golden tonic prepared by Kimball Bros. & Co. of Enosburg Falls, Vermont; horse at center of text advertisement explaining the ailments the tonic can cure for horses.

priJLC_AGR_001832

Hunnewell’s standard preparations

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