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| Date: | 10 14 1919 |
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| Description: | Certificate of newly elected officers of the Till Institute, a patent medicine company in Town of Almeda, Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. John Till served as Presi... |
| Date: | 07 31 1958 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal reporter John Newhouse is shown in Wisconsin General Hospital operating room garb as he reports on a new drug developed in W... |
| Date: | 05 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison mayor Ivan Nestingen visiting a patient at Madison General hospital after proclaiming the week as National Hospital Week. The nurse on the left is ... |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of advertisement for "Cole's Veterinary Carbolisalve". |
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| Description: | A traveling salesman, dressed in a suit and light hat, stands beside his carriage. A case of perfume and remedy wares sits near his feet. The small carriag... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, center, prepares baked goods with her mother, far left, and sisters, Juanita, Bonnie, and Blanch. Bread and r... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toi... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Business card of Edward Rohloff, a traveling salesman for Willson's Monarch Laboratory, a manufacturer of patent medications in the early part of the 1900s... |
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| Description: | Display of 18th and 19th century English medicine bottles. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Eye catching Eagle Drugstore window display for Pabst Malt Extract, "The Best Tonic". An advertisement for this product stated that it was "the greatest to... |
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| Description: | Dr. Eugene Krohn driving his medicine wagon. The man behind the wagon is either Rufus Jones or Warren C. Jones. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Street scene with customers in front of the M.P. Roberts Drugstore and C. Baack Flour and Feed Store. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic. |
| Date: | 01 07 1937 |
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| Description: | A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufac... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Trukenbrod's Pharmacy. The signs in the rear of the store proclaim that they are proprietors of both "Prescriptions" and "Paints" alike, w... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several downtown businesses, including a drugstore advertising "Patent Medicines and Cigars". |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of A.H. Hollister's Pharmacy, which was located at 3 North Pinckney Street. The man with the long beard (far left), is Albert H. Hollister (1... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Lincoln is portrayed as a pharmacist with the names of the Union generals on some of the products that surround him in an apothecary. Some examples: "Scott... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Wine of the Woods and Balsam Drops, a purported cure for dyspepsia, constipation, and headaches marketed to women and sold by John L. Moo... |
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