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Description: Image of an advertising newspaper for C.I. Hood Company apothecaries of Lowell, Massachusetts; variety of articles, mostly promotional information and testimonials for Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1915
Call number: priJLC_MED_004766
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.

Hood's Sarsaparilla Painting Book

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One painting book entitled Hood's Sarsaparilla Painting Book, published by C.I. Hood & Co., of Lowell, Massachusetts, copyright 1894. The front cover illustration features a girl wearing a smock who is painting the title of the book; the back cover features a colored image which is reproduced inside the book. Cut to resemble a rectangular palette, the book has 36 pages of images, most of which are in outline form for painting. Colored images serve as a guide for student in the appropriate use of color. The book advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla, a patent medicine, and the company itself. There are images of children playing, of Hood's Factory and Hood's Farm, and even of Merry Maiden, the prize cow from Hood's Farm. The majority of the outline images have been filled in using watercolors. Instructions for the use of watercolor are included.

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Hood’s sarsaparilla

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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.

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Hood's Drawing Book

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One drawing book, entitled Hood's Drawing Book, with Designs and Suggestions from an Artist of Long and Varied Experience, published by C.I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Massachusetts, 1898. The front cover of the drawing book shows a young man painting the title of the book onto a wood sign. The back cover of the book lists descriptions of various "Family Medicines" available from Hood & Company, including "Hood's Sarsaparilla," Hood's Tooth Powder," and "Hood's Olive Ointment." The 24-page book contains various drawing exercises, starting with simple forms and progresses to complex scenes. Inside the front cover are instructions, such as which pencils to buy and how to sharpen them. Preliminary exercises are on grids to aid the student in copying images; other exercises encourage independent efforts copying an image. Five of the images in the book have been copied into separate, loose papers, which have been inserted in the book. A few of the drawings relate to medical goods made by C.I. Hood & Co., such as the image of "Hood's Medicated Soap."

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Boston and Lexington Paint Company

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Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising for the Boston and Lexington Paint Company of Boston, Massachusetts, including information, analysis, dealers, and testimonials.

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Pacific Guano Co

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Image of a five-fold advertisement for fertilizer manufactured by Pacific Guano Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and sold by H. A. Blake of Sutton, Vermont; advertising text and testimonials throughout; images of a fish, a mammoth skeleton, and an aquatic bird eating a fish while standing atop a bag of "Soluble Pacific Guano" on cover panels.

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Henderson self-feeding and base-burning furnace

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Image of a four-fold leaflet advertising the Henderson self-feeding and base-burning furnace manufactured by Eddy & Corse of Troy, New York, and sold by Larrabee Brothers and Company of Boston, Massachusetts; cutaway diagram of the Henderson furnace with description and list of agents on recto; customer testimonials on verso.

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