Finding Aid for the Album of Printer's Samples of Drug Labels Biomed.0722
Finding aid prepared by Shira Peltzman, 2020.
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Title: Album of printer's samples of drug labels
source:
Selvaggio, Marc (Bookseller)
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0722
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(30 leaves)
Date (inclusive): circa 1890-1910
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Marc Selvaggio from the Franklin E. Murphy, M.D. Fund, 2019.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9988753533606533
Collection of 317 original printed bottle, box, and pill box labels, on 30 leaves, from an unknown printer. Includes 215 labels
mounted on scrapbook leaves and 122 tipped on, usually with a "fan" arrangement, so one can see all of the variants of a particular
design. Covers a wide range of products: pills for many different ailments as well as syrups and elixirs of all sorts. Many
incorporate art nouveau designs, and often with added silver or gold gilt. Most of the labels also incorporate an American
eagle design--one that was commonly used in French advertising material to indicate "English spoken here" for English-speaking
visitors; but in this case perhaps to suggest sale or use in the American market, or to suggest to an American visitor in
a French pharmacy that this was a bona fide safe product. The album binding is stamped "G.G. on the front cover.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Selvaggio, Marc (Bookseller)