Use Dalley's magical pain extractor, the great family ointment / Mayer, Merkel, & Ottmann lith, N.Y. – Vintage Wall Art
![Use Dalley's magical pain extractor, the great family ointment / Mayer, Merkel, & Ottmann lith, N.Y., [between 1875 and 1900] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/53/530eeb82281a-L.webp)
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Use Dalley's magical pain extractor, the great family ointment / Mayer, Merkel, & Ottmann lith, N.Y. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Use Dalley's magical pain extractor, the great family ointment / Mayer, Merkel, & Ottmann lith, N.Y.
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This colorful trade card promotes Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor, a patent medicine, and its winter scene of ice skating and sleds ties the sales pitch to the cold-weather season. The card was printed by Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, a New York lithography firm that produced many chromolithographs for advertisers in the late 1800s. Patent medicine makers commonly distributed such cards to shops and households, using cheerful outdoor scenes to make their products seem like part of everyday family life. The card offers a useful view of how advertising blended health claims with the leisure pursuits of the period.
| Created / published | [between 1875 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertising cards 1870-1900.Lithographs Color 1870-1900. |
| Subjects | Patent medicines--1870-1900. Ice skating--United States--1870-1900. Sleds & sleighs--1870-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,131 × 1,464 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216831 |
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