![]() |
|
History of Medicine | |
![]() |
Here Today, Here Tomorrow Home > Children ChildrenPictures of smiling children have always been enticing images in advertisements, even for products with which children have no possible connection, such as the Anti Nervous Dyspeptic Tobacco, "a cool sweet smoke and lasting chew". Images of children also graced the covers of almanacs, brochures and booklets as well as posters, trade cards and post cards. A series of six postcards of children playing doctor (one of which is shown), in which the physician was most often a small boy and the patient an infant girl, was popular early in the century. Another genre was the coloring book, puzzle book or collection of nursery rhymes which proprietary medicine manufacturers published for children's amusement; the prime target of such booklets was, of course, the mother who would be expected to at least glance at the recorded testimonials. |
|
![]() Pertussin, color poster, USA, 1930, 34.4 x 27.5 cm. |
![]() broadside, London, 1872, 22 x 13.8 cm. |
|
|
![]() trade card, Greenville, South Carolina, c. 1884, 11.3 x 7.3 cm. |
![]() Bartlett's Pepsinated Nutriment, trade card, Boston, c. 1880, 11.3 x 6.7 cm. |
|
|
![]() Anti Nervous Dyspeptic Tobacco, Just found his mail pouch, trade card, Wheeling, West Virginia, c. 1890, 12.8 x 8.9 cm. |
![]() Save the children, Diphtheria Can Be Cured, 4 page pamphlet, Brooklyn, New York, 1881, 22.4 x 14.7 cm. |
|
|
![]() Our Little Artist, 12 page pamphlet, Philadelphia, 1902, 12.3 x 7.7 cm. |
![]() Hood's Sarsaparilla Painting Book, 40 page die-cut pamphlet, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1894, 23.7 x 17.8 cm. |
|
|
![]() blotter for Hood's Sarsaparilla Painting Book, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1894, 9.5 x 12 cm. |
![]() color photograph post card, n.p., c. 1905, 14 x 9 cm. |
|
|
![]() A Corner on the Corn, color trade card, New York, c. 1895, 17.9 x 11.1 cm. |
![]() Baby Ease, trade card, n.p., c. 1895, 12.6 x 7.4 cm. |
|
|
![]() Barosma, trade card, New York, c. 1890, 10.5 x 6.9 cm. |
![]() photograph post card from the series Bébé Apothicaire, France, c. 1905, 13.8 x 8.6 cm. |
|
|
![]() Wilbor's Compound of Pure Cod Liver Oil, trade card, Boston, c. 1890, 19 x 13.8 cm. |
![]() trade card, n.p., 1891, 11.6 x 8 cm. |
|
|
![]() postcard number 2 in a series of 6 hand colored post cards, England, c. 1910, 13.8 x 8.7 cm. each. |
|
Last reviewed: 17 October 2006
Last updated: 17 October 2006
First published: 19 May 1998
Metadata| Permanence level: Permanent: Stable Content