Ayer's cathartic pills (The country doctor) – Antique 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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Step back in time with Ayer's cathartic pills (The country doctor), an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ayer's cathartic pills (The country doctor)
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Titled *The country doctor*, this color lithograph from about 1883 promotes Ayer's Cathartic Pills, a laxative made by J.C. Ayer & Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts, a firm known for heavy advertising in the late nineteenth century. Trade cards like this were handed out to customers and tucked into homes and shops, so they reached a wide public with scenes meant to make a remedy familiar. The catalog also lists African Americans and health and welfare as subjects, which points to how patent medicine advertising sought many audiences, even though its health claims were rarely backed by evidence.
| Created / published | c1883. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertising cards 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. |
| Subjects | Patent medicines--1880-1890. Physicians--1880-1890. African Americans--Health & welfare--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,128 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216561 |
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