Small trade card for Ayer's Ague Cure; front: a chromolithograph of a cabin and family in a swampy "wild" area; a triangular section, bottom, right, shows two frogs handing a bottle of the cure to an alligator (?) or crocodile; back: description of cure.
Small trade card for Ayer's Ague Cure; front: a chromolithograph of a cabin and family in a swampy "wild" area; a triangular section, bottom, right, shows two frogs handing a bottle of the cure to an alligator (?) or crocodile; back: description of cure.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, before July 15, 1996.
Before 1906 ("cure") and was produced for over "25 years", but no information on when this cure was first made
Material
paper: green; red; yellow; brown; blue
Inscriptions
"AYER'S AGUE CURE // IS WARRANTED TO CURE // FEVER & AGUE AND ALL // MALARIAL DISORDERS. // Prepared by // Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass."; back: "Ayer's Ague Cure is a purely // vegetable bitter and ..." etc.
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-G Chiong Trade Cards Binder D
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length: 11.6 cm. x Width: 6.0 cm.
Condition Remarks
Some age/sun discolouration; bottom right corner bent