print email comment close Patent Medicine Trade Cards URL: http://unitproj1.library.ucla.edu/dlib/medicinecards/ Description: Website for an ongoing effort to digitize a collection of 19th century "small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards touting a particular medicine and its many cures. The illustrations often have little to do with any of the ailments purported to be cured. They were pure advertising and very collectible." Searchable by keyword, such as "oil, extract, tonic, disease, ache, consumption, ague, dyspepsia, kidney, liver, heart, bowels, [and] appetite." From the University of California, Los Angeles, Library. Publisher: University of California, Los Angeles Extra Keywords trademarked medicines Dublin Core Material Type: Collection, Image Library of Congress Subject Headings: Advertising cards Patent medicines Printed ephemera LII Database Information: Record 22632 created by Maria Brandt on 09/18/2006 Last modification on 09/25/2006 Published: 09/28/2006   California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22632