Beecham's Pills advertisement: Ensure a Pleasing Reflection – Antique Wall Art
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This historic image of Beecham's Pills advertisement: Ensure a Pleasing Reflection brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Beecham's Pills advertisement: Ensure a Pleasing Reflection
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Beecham's Pills promised a clearer complexion, and this advertisement's slogan, *Ensure a Pleasing Reflection*, makes the pitch plain: take the pills and the mirror will show you at your best. Thomas Beecham began selling his laxative pills in the 1840s in St Helens, Lancashire, and by the late nineteenth century the company was among the most heavily advertised patent medicine makers in Britain and abroad. Ads like this one linked digestion and regularity to appearance and vitality, a common approach in an era when patent remedies sold on hope as much as on proven effect.
| Original scan | 561 × 800 px |
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| Reference | 784 |
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