Story of a gold headed cane, Otis Clapp & Son, Inc., 439 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., undated

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Medicines
General
Medicines - General - Folder 1
Story of a gold headed cane, Otis Clapp & Son, Inc., 439 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Medicines
    - General
      - Medicines - General - Folder 1
        Trade card for Ayer's cathartic pills, 1883
        Trade card for Novelty Plaster Works, Lowell, Mass., depicting boys sledding
        Trade card for Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil, location uknown, undated
        Trade card for Burdock Blood Bitters, made by T. Millburn Drug Company, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for medicines featuring "weather and medicine signals for daily reference," J.C. Ayer and Company, Lowell, Mass., 1886
        Trade card for the Bell-Cap-Sic plaster featuring an illustration of puppies, J.M. Grosvenor & Company, 1891
        Trade card for bitters tonic, Brown's Iron Bitters Company, St. Louis, Missouri, undated
        Trade card for "The Best Tonic" an extract of malt and hops, unknown manufacturer, undated
        Trade card for Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure, H.H. Warner Company, Rochester, New York, undated
        Trade card for Carter's Little Nerve Pills, Carter Medicine Company, New York, New York, undated
        Trade card for Lactart Milk Acid, Avert Lactate Company, Boston, Mass., 1884
        Trade card for Nichols' Bark and Iron, manufactured by Billings Clapp and Company, Boston, Mass., undated
        Hood's pocket calendar, C.I. Hood & Co., apothecaries, Lowell, Mass., 1881
        Almanac for Joseph Burnett & Co., Boston, Mass., 1879
        Treatise on fevers in general, but more particularly of chills and fever, ague, and all malarial diseases, giving simple directions for their treatment, with Thermaline, Dundas Dick & Co., New York, 1878
        Story of a gold headed cane, Otis Clapp & Son, Inc., 439 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., undated (current record)
        Receipt for Thomson's Patent, Samuel Thomson, Boston, Mass., dated August 17, 1839
        War! war!! war!!! between physicians and the matchless sanative, location unknown, 1837
        Trade card for Parker's Tonic, the great health and strength restorer, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Hunt's Remedy, the great kidney & liver medicine, William E. Clarke, proprietor, Providence, Rhode Island, undated
        Trade card for Dundas Dick & Company, Tasteless Medicines, New York, New York, 1876-1877
        Trade cards for George P. Farrington, druggist, 310 Essex Street, Salem, Mass., 1878
        Trade card for C.I. Hood Family Medicines, C.I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass., 1903
        You need this! Anheuser-Busch's Malt-Nutrine, Detroit, Calvert Lith. Co., 1896
        Trade card for Hoffman's Harmless Headache Powders, Hoffman Drug Co., New Rochelle, New York, undated
        Advertisment for Turner's Tic Douloureux or Universal Neuralgia Pill, Turner & Co., proprietors, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., 1867
        Advertisements for Dr. Babcock's Hair Dressing, American Dermatological Institute, 28 Winter Street, Boston, Mass., December 1867
        Advertisement for Dr. J.W. Poland's White Pine Compound, New England Botanic Depot, Boston, Mass., October 1867
        Advertisement for Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, location unknown, September 1867
        Perry's Moth and Freckle Lotion, B.C. Perry, dermatologist, No. 49 Bond Street, New York, New York, November 1867
        Circular for Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil, Wm. Renne & Sons, Pittsfield, Mass., undated
        Receipt for Thomson's Patent, Samuel Thomson, Boston, Mass., dated August 30, 1839
        Circular for The Ayer Line of Family Medicines, Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., undated
        Circular for Vegetine, blood purifier, H.R. Stevens, No. 464 Broadway, Boston, Mass., 1881-1882
        Circular for Vegetine, blood purifier, H.R. Stevens, No. 464 Broadway, Boston, Mass., 1872
        Circular for The Family Medicine Herbalia, blood purifier, A.J. Morse & Co., 364 Athens Street, South Boston, Mass., 1880
        Label for Dr. Chas. Adams' Concentrated Jaundice and Tonic Bitters, Oakham, Mass., undated
        Label for deodorized benzine, Hall & Lyon, apothecaries, No. 203 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island, undated
        Trade card for Hunt's Remedy, the great kidney & liver medicine, William E. Clarke, proprietor, Providence, Rhode Island, undated
        Trade card for Hunt's Remedy, the great kidney medicine never known to fail, William E. Clarke, proprietor, Providence, Rhode Island, undated

Description

The brochure describes the Clapp Family history. Otis Clapp began selling medicines in 1840. He published, with his uncle Nathan Hale, the "Boston Daily Advertiser," the "Boston Directory" and such titles as the "American Library of Useful Knowledge."

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
people in health and medicine
publishers
brochures

Physical Description

1 brochure ; 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.076.01.01.016

Image Dimensions

6 1/4 x 3 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

brochures

Other People

Hale, Nathan, 1784-1863

Subjects

Drugs
Boylston Street (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

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