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Trade card for Carter's Little Nerve Pills, Carter Medicine Company, New York, New York, undated

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Location Note

Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Medicines and Sarsaparilla (Greg Smart)

GUSN

GUSN-195543

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Description

Trade card advertising patent medicine for nervousness and dyspepsia. The card depicts an older woman hiding behind a younger woman. The copy reads "Why Aunty! what makes you so nervous? It is only a cow. If you would but take CARTER'S LITTLE NERVE PILLS, you could not be thrown into such nervous spasms."

Details

Descriptive Terms

medicine
women (female humans)
trade cards (advertising)
advertisements

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000654
AccessID 889
Other identifier HNEDID-000654

Physical Description

1 trade card

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.076.01.01.010

Places

New York City (New York state)

Record Details

Originator

Gies & Co. (Printer)
Carter Medicine Company (Manufacturer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)
advertisements

Other Organizations

Carter Medicine Company

Subjects

Tonics (Medical preparations)
Patent medicines
Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Medicines and Sarsaparilla (Greg Smart)

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