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Schweizer alpenkraüter. Swiss alpine herbs bitters

Description: Image of an idyllic landscape in the Swiss Alps with a cabin and livestock next to a river at center in an advertisement for Swiss Alpine Herbs Bitters; description in German (top) and English (bottom); botanical decorative border.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1854-1873
Call number: priJLC_MED_004473
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.

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Visual Materials

Image of a broadside advertisement for Dr. Solon Osmond Richardson's jaundice bitters with decorative border.

priJLC_MED_002615

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Visual Materials

Image of a bust-length portrait of a man at the center of an advertisement for Celebrated Oxygenated Bitters; elaborate decorative border with eye at top center.

priJLC_MED_002627

Golden sheaf bitters

Visual Materials

Image of the goddess Columbia with an American flag, bald eagle, and liberty cap at the center of an advertisement for Golden Sheaf Bitters; sheaves of grain and blank banners for text at left and right.

priJLC_MED_004466

Quaker bitters

Visual Materials

Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising Dr. Flint's Quaker bitters; view of "Dr. Flint's Great Medical Depot" building exterior and storefront in Providence, Rhode Island, description of product, testimonials, and image of a man with a cane standing with bitters in hand on recto; views of the "tank, or generating room" and "bottling and packing department" in the building interior and expanded descriptions of ailments the product can treat on verso.

priJLC_MED_004707

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Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for National of Hartford with Columbia standing next to an American bald eagle and holding an American flag and a shield with a stag; large decorative circular border with American flags; instructional text and diagrams for installing "decalcomanie 'good-ad' signs manufactured by Palm, Fechteler & Co." in windows on verso.

priJLC_FIN_002566

Bitters S. S. Wyckoff & Co. New York

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Image of an advertisement for bitters sold by S. S. Wyckoff & Co. of New York, New York; allegorical woman figure wearing a liberty cap and holding laurel wreaths in each hand at center surrounded by books, ewers, sculpture, sheaves of grain, grapes, and a draped American flag; United States Capitol building in background; United States seal with eagle at bottom center.

priJLC_MED_002616

Schweizer alpenkraüter. Swiss alpine herbs bitters

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