Bennett Pieters & Cos. celebrated Red Jacket stomach bitters / lith. by Ed. Mendel, Chicago. – Antique Wall Art
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Bennett Pieters & Cos. celebrated Red Jacket stomach bitters / lith. by Ed. Mendel, Chicago. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bennett Pieters & Cos. celebrated Red Jacket stomach bitters / lith. by Ed. Mendel, Chicago.
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Few patent medicine labels borrowed a famous name as directly as this one, which features the Seneca leader Red Jacket on a label for stomach bitters. Red Jacket (ca. 1756-1830) was a Seneca orator and statesman in western New York, admired in his lifetime for his eloquence in councils with American officials. This color lithograph, issued by Bennett Pieters & Co. of Chicago and drawn on stone by Ed. Mendel, dates to about 1864 and shows how makers of bitters traded on Native American imagery to suggest an old, natural remedy. The name of a real man, long dead by then, gave the product an air of authority that its claims rarely earned.
| Created / published | c1864. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Labels 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Copyright by Bennett Pieters & Co. |
| Subjects | Red Jacket--(Seneca chief),--ca. 1756-1830. Indians of North America--1860-1870. Patent medicines--1860-1870. Bitters--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,159 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218232 |
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