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Wolcott's Instant Pain Annihilator – Antique Print

Wolcott's Instant Pain Annihilator, c1867. — antique lithograph
Wolcott's Instant Pain Annihilator, c1867.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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A window into the past: Wolcott's Instant Pain Annihilator, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Wolcott's Instant Pain Annihilator promises relief in its very name, a boast typical of the patent medicines that flooded American markets after the Civil War. Lithographs like this were inexpensive to print in quantity and were pasted on walls, shop windows and fences to draw buyers. Many such remedies were sold with little oversight and contained alcohol, opiates or other strong ingredients, a problem not addressed by federal law until the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The record dates the print to about 1867 and credits Royal L. Wolcott with the copyright, but those details come from an older caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1867.
Medium1 print : lithograph
NotesRef. copy may be in SSF - MEDICINES, PATENT. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Copyrighted by Royal L. Wolcott.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,103 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172433

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