Table Luxuries: The Nutriment Company Fluid Beef advertisement – Vintage Print
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Table Luxuries: The Nutriment Company Fluid Beef advertisement
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Fluid beef, as this advertisement promotes it, was a concentrated meat extract sold in the late nineteenth century as a restorative tonic for invalids, nursing mothers and anyone thought to be run down. The Nutriment Company pitched its product as a dainty pleasure for the dinner table rather than a sickroom remedy, which is the tension worth noticing in the layout: the word "luxuries" in the title sits alongside medical claims about strength and recovery. Ads like this reflect a period when patent foods and beef extracts were marketed with confident promises of vitality, long before modern rules governed what such products could claim.
| Original scan | 616 × 897 px |
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| Reference | 926 |
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