Londonderry Lithia Water advertisement with elephant and clown – Historic Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Londonderry Lithia Water advertisement with elephant and clown. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Londonderry Lithia Water advertisement with elephant and clown
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Londonderry Lithia Water was a mineral spring tonic bottled in Ohio and sold across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and this advertisement shows how its makers used circus imagery to sell it. An elephant and a clown appear side by side, a playful pairing meant to catch the eye of readers who might otherwise pass over a patent medicine notice. Such advertisements were common then, when lithia waters were promoted as cures for gout, kidney trouble and indigestion, and the cheerful pictures helped soften the serious health claims behind them.
| Original scan | 626 × 882 px |
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| Reference | 961 |
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