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Scrapbook of Business Trade Cards: Drugs (book 2)

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@ History Colorado

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This scrapbook contains trade cards from around the United States, and have to deal with drug stores. Page two is of a drug store in New York and the card is a windmill. The propellers are in a white envelope not connected to the base anymore. Page three contains 10 trade cards, five of which are for E. F. Brown, a druggist in Ipswich. Page four contains an entire page worth of trade cards dedicated to Ayer's Sarsaparilla, a blood medicine. Page five also contains cards for this brand, but six more with toddler faces on the front, for Petrulina. Page six contains seven cards (out of nine) for Nature's Remedy, Vegetine. Page seven contains seven cards, two are the same, a picture of a handsome dog, advertising Vegetine. A white envelope contains a trade that was originally on this page. Page eight contains five trade cards, two advertise Imperial Granum, a food for infants and children. Two others advertise Lactated food. Page nine contains four cards (eight total) that are actually only two pictures of the cards. They are advertising Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient. Two white envelopes come right after the page, containing trade cards that were originally on the page. Page 10 contains many different companies and drug compounds. In the right lower corner there are two birds and one squirrel, they do not appear to be part of anything, but they are attached. Page 11 contains a few trade cards with little women (young girls most likely) who...

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History Colorado

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Plains to Peaks Collective