Soldier's True Friend Holloway's Ointment and Pills advertisement – Vintage Print
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This rare historic image captures Soldier's True Friend Holloway's Ointment and Pills advertisement in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Soldier's True Friend Holloway's Ointment and Pills advertisement
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This advertisement presents Holloway's Pills and Ointment as the "Soldier's True Friend," a slogan that targeted men in the field, where wounds, bowel complaints, and fevers were constant dangers. Thomas Holloway began selling these remedies in London in the 1830s, and his firm became one of the most heavily advertised patent medicine makers of the nineteenth century. Like many such notices, it relies on bold lettering and a promise of relief rather than any verifiable evidence of cure. Its appearance alongside other consumer goods on this board is a reminder of how printed advertising filled newspapers and magazines of the period.
| Original scan | 2,780 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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