Dr. M.A. Simmons liver medicine – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Dr. M.A. Simmons liver medicine. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dr. M.A. Simmons liver medicine
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Dr. M.A. Simmons Liver Medicine is a large chromolithograph, roughly 42 by 28 inches, produced to promote a patent medicine. The printing is credited to the A. Gast Bank-Note & Lithographing Company, with imprints for St. Louis and New York and a date of 1886, though the catalog record flags some of its details as unverified. In the late nineteenth century, proprietary remedies like this one were sold as cures for liver and digestive complaints, and their makers relied on eye-catching posters to reach shoppers and druggists. The bold color and dramatic layout typical of such advertisements are worth noticing, since they show how commercial lithography was used to sell medicine.
| Created / published | St. Louis & NY : A. Gast Bank-Note & Lith. Co., 1886. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph ; 41 5/8 x 27 3/4 in. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gast. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,005 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176638 |
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