A database of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States.
receipts (recipes) from Mrs. Mayor Stott's "Practical Cook Book"; testimonials attesting to the various ills Hood's cures (scrofula, scroofulous humor, salt-rheum, cancerous humor, scald head, boils, syphilitci affections, bone pain, female weaknesses, general debility, headache, costiveness, diptheria, purfies blood) and the trustworthiness of Hood & Co. Images of each page from this item are available. Searchable text is only available for the title page, index, and/or contents pages.