The best liniment on earth, cures all pain – Historic Print
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(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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A window into the past: The best liniment on earth, cures all pain, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The best liniment on earth, cures all pain
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The poster's boast that this liniment is "the best on earth" is paired with a globe, a visual way of suggesting the remedy's reach. The Strobridge Litho. Co. of Cincinnati and New York printed it around 1900, when patent medicines were sold with sweeping promises to cure nearly any ailment, years before the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act required certain ingredients to be listed on labels. Strobridge was one of the busiest American makers of color posters then, and its bright chromolithographs were meant to catch the eye of shoppers in store windows and on city streets.
| Created / published | [1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1900.Posters American 1900.Chromolithographs Color 1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York. No. 1880. |
| Subjects | Patent medicines--1900. Globes--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,136 × 1,440 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217771 |
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