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Title: Mitchell's Kidney Plasters [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1870 and 1906?]
1870/1906
Publication Information: New York (N.Y) ?
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection: History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Original trade card forms part of: Collection no. 311. History & Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA.
The card depicts a scene where an older african american man is talking on the phone. On the other side of the card there's a donkey appearing to be at the other side of the line.
On front of the card:Bless my stars! He must be a foreigner and can't understand Say! Tell James to call round to de drug store and get some MITCHELL'S KIDNEY PLASTERS.Mr. Livingston he can't go out today, he got such a pain across his Kidneys...
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Identifier: https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma9960994033606533
ark:/21198/zz0002hhmf
Language: English
Subject: African American men
Telephones
Kidney Diseases--drug therapy--Advertisements
Pain--drug therapy--Advertisements
Donkeys
Drugs, Non-Prescription--Advertisements
Plaster (Pharmacy)
Patent medicines
Analgesics--Advertisements
J.H. Bufford & Co
Source: Patent Medicine Trade Cards
History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection

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