Get fat on Lorings Fat-ten-u and corpula foods – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Get fat on Lorings Fat-ten-u and corpula foods. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Get fat on Lorings Fat-ten-u and corpula foods
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Promising to help thin readers gain weight, this color lithograph from about 1895 advertises Loring's Fat-ten-u and "corpula" foods. Weight-gain tonics like these were a steady seller in the 1890s, when patent medicine makers made bold health claims with little oversight. The print was copyrighted in 1895 by the Gribler Bank Note Co. and based on a photograph by Bakers Art Gallery. It was later displayed in the Library of Congress exhibition *American Treasures* in 2004 and 2005.
| Created / published | c1895. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright 1895 by The Gribler Bank Note Co. from photo by Bakers Art Gallery. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-05. |
| Subjects | Nutrition--1890-1900. Patent medicines--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,813 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175632 |
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