Cardboard blotter: front: top has a ruler (in inches); below is a "map" of the world showing people, animals, famous events and dates; a scroll reveals where the ingredients to Mentholatum come from in the world, next to a bottle of it; a tube of Mentholatum covers Siberia; backing blue.
Cardboard blotter: front: top has a ruler (in inches); below is a "map" of the world showing people, animals, famous events and dates; a scroll reveals where the ingredients to Mentholatum come from in the world, next to a bottle of it; a tube of Mentholatum covers Siberia; backing blue.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. M. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, July 15, 1995 (before).
Lists Lindbergh's 1927 cross-atlantic flight -- latest date on card; product already flourishing in 1918, still around in 1957 (as Mentholatum Rub)
Material
paper: red; yellow; green; orange; blue
Inscriptions
"COLDS - CHAPPED SKIN - SUNBURN // MENTHOLATUM // GIVES COMFORT DAILY // EXECUTIVE OFFICES // THE MENTHOLATUM CO. // WILMINGTON, DEL. // The // Ingredients // that make Mentholatum come from all over // the world and Mentholatum is used // all over the World // 1. MENTHOL ... California and Japan // 2. BORIC ACID ... deserts of America // 3. PETROLATUM ... Pennsylvania // 4. OIL OF SWEET BIRCH ... New England, U.S.A.", etc.
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-G Chiong Trade Cards Binder A
Dimension Notes
Length: 16.1 cm. x Width: 9.0 cm.
Condition Remarks
Edges a little worn; bottom, near right has a slight gouge; back: several lines of creasing from folding
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Other
Reference Comments
From card itself, "The Medical Messiahs" by James Harvey Young, p. 117; "Remedies and Rackets" by James Cook, p. 65
Research Facts
Contains menthol, boric acid, petrolatum, oil of sweet birch, oil of pine, camphor, eucalyptus; factories in Buffalo, N.Y., Bridgeburg, Ontario, Slough, England, and Omi-Hachiman, Japan; arthritis / rheumatism remedy in 1957 when received complaint from Federal Trade Commission (FTC)