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Patent Medicine Trade Cards
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Description
The trade cards are small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards touting a particular medicine and its many cures. The
illustrations often have little to do with any of the ailments purported to be cured. They were pure advertising and very
collectible.
Extent
247 prints
(trade cards)