Hamlin's Wizard Oil will cure your Rheumatism – Historic 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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A window into the past: Hamlin's Wizard Oil will cure your Rheumatism, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hamlin's Wizard Oil will cure your Rheumatism
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Hamlin's Wizard Oil, a liniment sold for aches and pains, is the subject of this 1889 chromolithograph, and its title makes the bold claim that it will cure rheumatism. The poster was printed by Hughes Litho. Co. of Chicago, a city where patent medicine makers and color printing shops both did a brisk business. Advertisements like this one reflect an era when remedies made sweeping health claims that went largely unchecked until the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Some details here come from older, unverified notes, so treat the attribution and date as provisional.
| Created / published | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster). |
| Notes | Chromolithograph by Hughes Litho. Co., Chicago, 108 x 72 cm. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Image online for C4 does not match the caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,107 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176618 |
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