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Tonics (Medicinal preparations)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Advertising cards and ephemera collection

 Collection — Folder S3117
Identifier: S3117
Scope and Contents This collection includes advertising cards, tickets, calling cards, a postcard, and pamphlets from various businesse enterprises and organizations in Indianapolis, Indiana and New York, New York, ranging from circa 1860 to 1935 regarding products such as tonics and curatives, soap, coffee, and tickets to fairs and sporting, club, and public speaking events. Many of the cards appear to have been removed from a scrapbook.
Dates: circa 1860-1935

Mildred Dixon Harrod collection

 Collection — Folder S2901
Identifier: S2901
Scope and Contents The collection includes 30 items, including original patent medicine advertisements, including catarrhal symptoms, for miscellaneous health care issues (circa 1884-1926), miscellaneous correspondence to Mildred Dixon Harrod, and one advertisement for Epworth Concert Grand pianos (undated).
Dates: 1884-1926

Tippecanoe Tonic papers

 Collection — Folder S1472
Identifier: S1472
Scope and Contents This collection includes two advertising cards from Tippecanoe Tonic in Indiana 1883 regarding the sale of the tonic.
Dates: 1883

William Alexander collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0015
Scope and Contents This collection contains items related to the life of William Alexander ranging from 1856 to 1876, including two copybooks, the preface to his scrapbook, newspaper clippings of poems, and recipes for cough syrup, liniment, flux, etc.
Dates: 1856-1876